Sentences with phrase «people in our culture who»

Lots of Christians fail to recognize that «presenting the Gospel» to people who didn't grow up in church has very little chance of getting a positive response, especially for the many people in our culture who have a negative impression of Christianity.

Not exact matches

Touching down and connecting with people in different cultures is a great way to push your thoughts beyond the people who think just like you.

A culture is a living thing, powered by and kept up to date by the people who are encouraged to be, in a meaningful way, part of it.

«Parker didn't want some kind of big - company, corporate - type person who wouldn't fit in with the culture.

For this reason, take steps to ensure that you only employ people who genuinely enjoy interacting with those around them and help foster a culture of transparency and directness in the process.

There is much to be said for the person who can be modest when interacting with others, especially in a culture that overvalues extroversion as a form of charm or confidence.

You want people who embody the brand and culture you are trying to create, and who will model the behaviors you want embedded in the company as it grows.

«We tend to have a culture where... people don't generally speak up,» said Jason Tan, a former Singapore Airlines flight attendant who works as a consultant training cabin crews in Asia and the Middle East.

In a 2013 survey, 82 % of people who make hiring decisions felt culture fit was important in the hiring process; 59 % had rejected candidates who didn't fit iIn a 2013 survey, 82 % of people who make hiring decisions felt culture fit was important in the hiring process; 59 % had rejected candidates who didn't fit iin the hiring process; 59 % had rejected candidates who didn't fit inin.

Much has been written about the connection between corporate culture and branding, and it should be thunderingly obvious by now that hiring people who don't share a company's values is, in the long run, a recipe for disaster.

At the end of the day, it's really important to hire people who contribute to the culture in a positive way.

As a person who implements software, it helps me in advance to know the culture and personalities of the people I'll be intimately working with so I know whether or not to include a bottle — or three — of Jack Daniels in my budget.

If you're hiring people to fit into what's actually an unscrupulous, harassment - ridden «bro culture,» odds are you'll be alienating many prospective employees who don't fit into the demographic boxes of young, white, and male — or those who simply prefer to work in a more professional environment.

Employees at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, rave about its «incredible culture» and its «incredible people [who display] a mix of intelligence but also humility that you don't find at other top consulting firms.»

The next step is to surround yourself with people who believe in your company's mission, share your values and who fit with your culture, so that it can support itself.

There are three key attributes of people who thrive in our company culture: being nice, being self - directed and communicating well.

At FlexJobs, a high - performance culture means that we hire for and cultivate amazing people who are supported to excel, who believe in both doing well and doing right in order to reach our company's goals.

An effective employee sales strategy helps organizations find the best candidates — people who are a good match for the culture, can successfully meet the demands of the job and are more likely to excel in the organization.

People who have had to overcome obstacles and challenges are most likely to thrive in a competitive sales culture.»

«The right guy for a job like that in a company that's steeped in the popular culture with young audiences, the person who owns that chair should be somebody who is turned on, attracted to and somewhat knowledgeable about the popular culture and what's going on there.»

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

This company has developed a unique company culture in which people who are highly motivated thrive.

Michael said it is important to have local Chinese people in your company who can interact with the government and who understand the ins and outs of the business culture.

It's not remotely snobby or silly that people care enough about good beer to want to protect the scene from corporate brewers «who are simply looking to cash in without making meaningful contributions to craft beer culture,» Galligan said.

From blaming the victim to the way lyrics which glorify rape and smacking or killing your «bitch» seem to go unnoticed by people who should be in an uproar about it, to the ridiculously light sentences handed out to perpetrators of rape and even murder of a woman or child, our culture is tacitly condoning this mind - set by their very silence.

The funny thing about people saying their faith isn't shaken is that these are the same people who will often look at other natural disasters in foreign countries and say God is punishing these people, or that something bad happened because of some aspect of the culture that God disapproves of.

In order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are truIn order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are truin and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are truin which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are true.

The Church does not seek a direct role in politics; the Church forms the people who can shape the culture that makes democratic self - governance work: «It is by forming consciences that the Church makes her most specific and valuable contribution to society.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Unfortunately, I believe too much discontentment, even in Christian culture, results from people who sacrifice their integrity to feel needed.

This would mean, by logical standards, that the people who did move to the Western Hemisphere would have had to have abandoned their culture, their tools, and even their god, for there is no record of monotheism in the Western Hemisphere.

This belief is particularly poignant for the person with AIDS who obviously finds much in the surrounding culture to reinforce this incriminating interpretation.

You are that person who is U.S. born, and has never left the country to expose yourself by living in another culture for any extended period of time!!

I'm a better person when I'm not weighed down by a book of mythology written by relatively ignorant people who lived in a very specific culture which is utterly different than our own.

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

«Unfortunately, community in our culture too often means a group of people who go crashing through the woods together, scaring the soul away.

If you think about it today we use the work sodomite (I am not saying I do) in culture to indicate people who perform certain sexual practices.

When a culture puts more of it's faith in God (Christian God) they are much more honest hard working people who do not rely on their government to pave their way through life.

Says he: «What makes «Culture in an Age of Money» fun to read — at least for people who were not enamored of Mr. Reagan — is its refreshing candor.

Who a person becomes is affected greatly by the formative influence of the whole culture in which he lives.

A living culture is a matrix of person - sustaining relationships that are inseparable from the human beings who participate in them.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

John Senior, in The Restoration of Christian Culture, explains the phrase this way — «the lover is the only one who really sees the truth about a person... we can only love what we know because we have first touched, tasted, smelled, heard and seen.»

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

But in allowing some traditions to change and new influences to be introduced, we create a new culture that may welcome the very people who have walked through those open doors and then never returned.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

No doubt there have been and are many people who have come to America simply to transplant their existing culture onto new soil — in fact, you can make the argument that that was how America was founded in the first place.

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

But I definitely had pastors in mind, or youth pastors or just leaders in Christianity... people who are especially concerned with the question of how to make Christianity appealing to the culture and whether or not we should try to make Christianity «cool.»

The ministry often attracts persons who have had an above average dose of the pleasure - anxiety which is one of the dubious products of the tradition of puritanism in our culture.