Missionary work to «save the heathens» who use a different word to praise God, any word that is different than their own... even though the other peoples and cultures don't speak English and have their own words of prayer... How many churches respected other cultures and how many do now?
The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that
persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.
Negotiation tactics depend on
the people and cultures doing the negotiating, and there are a lot of those.
Not exact matches
Setting up a company
and culture that allows
people to
do what they
do best (Mastery), in the way that they think will bring about the best results (Autonomy) focused on something that is meaningful (Purpose) as part of group aligned in values (Connectedness) is what drives a great
and powerful
culture.»
Culture and creating an environment supportive of his
people and conducive to their
doing great work.
When you build a strong
culture and vet for this in the recruiting process, that naturally happens - great
people attract other great
people,
and collectively
do great things.
The most important elements of the process don't have anything to
do with how the coffee machine works or where to sign up for the spin class; they have everything to
do with the company's
culture, which is the hardest thing for a new
person to absorb
and the hardest thing for any business to put into words.
We think
people,
and culture, are foundation of everything we
do.
If you're a really close - knit company where
people love working for you,
and then you sell it to a company that doesn't have the same
culture, I feel that you're letting
people down.
If those
people could only see innovative corporate giants like Apple, Intel,
and Microsoft as I
do — as I've seen them grow from the early days to now — they would see them as villages raising children with
cultures all their own.
A new panel of judges evaluates the applicants in four areas: strategy (a vision
and how that vision is communicated
and managed); capability (
does the company have the ability — the
people, processes
and systems — to execute); commitment (the engagement
and alignment, the
culture to execute);
and financials, the numbers that prove the first three are driving results.
You don't evaluate your business strategy just once a year, so why
do we put
culture and people and their engagement
and satisfaction last?»
Aligning purpose with
culture is about defining
and embodying the values that will guide your organization towards purpose,
and delivering tools to your
people - in the form of purposeful habits - that will allow them to live out the purpose in the work they
do every day.
If
people do not share the same value
and culture, it is hard to build rapport
and it will make the work more difficult.
«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.
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.
«If leadership doesn't have an intense focus on both building
and sustaining the right
culture for your business
and the
people you want to attract, it's very easy for a toxic one to take over,» CEO of HR tech platform YouEarnedIt Autumn Manning tells Business Insider.
For example, there are onboarding automation tools that allow you to spend less time
doing paperwork on first days
and more time initiating
people into your
culture.
Rich will continue to
do the work he started at
People, Entertainment Weekly
and Sports Illustrated to transition our brands to become true multimedia, multi-platform businesses
and to introduce an entrepreneurial spirit
and investment
culture into the organization.
«Asana's
culture centers on assigning responsibility to the
person in the best position to take it,
and then empowering that
person to
do the job well.»
«When I questioned pointedly about their
culture and my concerns, they doubled down on it,» he said, telling him, «We
do have an aggressive
culture, we
do step on
people's toes,
and we think that the best way to get performance out of
people.»
Let's assume the following: A) You've written a job description that is concise, intriguing
and honest; B) you're
doing this all on your own, without the help of an HR
person; C) you don't have a standardized system of recruiting
and vetting; D) you aren't so obsessed with your company
culture that you're looking for the exact right combination of personality, pedigree
and the answer «honey badger» to the question «If you could be any animal...?»
By following these three steps, Lencioni believes, you can turn your company
culture into one that is self - healing, can quickly identify
people or behavior that
does not align with the company's core values,
and automatically correct the behavior or rejects the outlier.
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.
Do you have a
culture of
people who A. share a set of values, B. have very clear responsibilities,
and C. perform?
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.»
It means the
culture supports
people in
doing the best possible work
and, on the flip side, every
person is expected to take ownership
and responsibility for that
culture.
«
And many
people don't recognize the signs because so much of it is normalized in our
culture.
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.
Essentially, «
do what I
do best» comes down to matching the right
person with the right role
and the right
culture.
The
people of a peak performance
culture say what they are going to
do and do what they say.
Here, «community» doesn't just mean where these young
people live, but the social networks, Internet subcultures
and media choices which reflect their personal interests
and / or
culture.
Listening to their stories about our business
and their lives teaches me about shared values, which form the foundation for a strong corporate
culture that motivates
people to
do their best every day.»
[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?
Nurses are more easily retained, said Eadie, when they're ensconced in a
culture that mirrors the broader, on - demand
culture on display outside a hospital's doors:
People watch Netflix when they want,
and do their banking when they want,
and nurses likewise benefit when there are technological mechanisms in place to make their jobs easier.
Just as communities adapt
and change along with its
people, so too
does company
culture.
While working in an industry not known for positive work
cultures (call centers), Paul
and his brothers focused on creating an environment in which
people loved what they
did every day,
and lived by a set of core values that everyone respected.
We
do that by hiring skilled employees
and developing them with ongoing training, developing a performance - oriented
culture, ensuring the inclusion of diverse perspectives from
people with diverse backgrounds
and ensuring adherence to our company values.
I'm wondering,
do VCs ever find a good mentor that can lead a founder to being a better leader
and a better
person in the way that they build their
culture and really help their employees [inaudible 00:05:14]?
I'm wondering,
do VCs ever find a good mentor that can lead a founder to being a better leader
and a better
person in the way that they build their
culture and really help their employees rise?
Managers
and directors set the tone for the rest of the organization,
and having a discussion about healthy work
culture will be worthless if the
person leading it works 60 - hour weeks, takes no vacations, disrespects others,
and thinks the discussion
does not apply to them.
The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17
people dead has sparked another debate about gun
culture in America
and spurred new hopes that something will be
done to prevent future incidents.
In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (
and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or histor
and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d
and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or histor
and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print
AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or histor
AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those
people to be the Pharisees
and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or histor
and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (
done generally with no comprehension of Jewish
culture or history).
I really would rather
people DID care about sexism, rape
culture,
and fact checking, though.
Avarice
and Eden Edward Skidelsky believes that our materialist
culture tempts
people to
do too much productive work («The Emancipation of Avarice,» May).
Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying
and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown
people who don't believe the way you
do anyway,
and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them
and learning about their
cultures and traditions
and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.
Rather, liturgy breaks the bounds of the sanctuary
and affects all that we
do and indeed the wider
culture as it brings God's
people to God.
«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other
cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.
After having been in a couple relationships with
people whose second (or third) language is English,
and knowing what I
do now, I have a lot of empathy for what
people are going through as they adjust to new words, new
cultures,
and new everything.
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.