Sentences with phrase «thing as a culture»

There is such a thing as a culture of success, and we ain't there!

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These are things that are important to us as a culture and as a society and I only want to align myself with brands that have the same kind of cultural beliefs that I do.»

Fostering a healthy culture in the sales organization as head of sales is one thing; doing it companywide is another.

On the other hand, wonderful blue things — clear skies and crystalline seas, for example — leap rapidly to mind and exist as a constant across cultures (everyone loves clean water and nice weather).

Yet he struggled to integrate the two cultures — and, in a precursor of things to come, took over as CEO.

With that said, there are small things that we as leaders can do to encourage our teammates to build the culture we need to succeed.

Then you'll want to emphasize such things as stock options and other aspects of compensation as well as location, work environment, corporate culture and opportunities for growth and advancement.

«I need to be building things to feel like I'm making a meaningful contribution, and I didn't want to sit around as some kind of wall decoration - slash - mascot for culture.»

«We see ourselves at Facebook as a community and culture of builders, so we like to see how people are thinking about things a little bit differently.»

Sumerian life at the time was built as most polytheistic cultures are — pet gods, responsible for things like the health of a harvest, the phases of the moon or fertility.

Is Gawker.com as we know it, the site that drove a certain type of internet culture, a thing of the past?

There's also entrepreneur, inventor and head of X (formerly known as Google X) Astro Teller's talk, «The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure,» where he explains how X has built a comfortable culture where people aren't afraid to take risks and try new things.

[When you] start to make a habit of realizing that formal leadership isn't the same thing as running a discussion, you make it easier to have a culture where people can speak up and, if they know something relevant, take the lead.»

Finally, HR also gains ethical significance by embodying most of the few tools available for managers to shape that elusive thing known as corporate culture.

As the team continues to grow, one thing I'm focused on is keeping intact the culture the early leadership team worked very hard to create.

We also have fun with our company culture, and offer things that will energize our team, such as a «pay it forward» benefit to help someone in their life or community.

«It's your responsibility as an employer to set your employees up for success, and making sure their values and work ethic is in line with your culture before extending an offer is the very first thing you can do for them and the rest of your workforce.»

The phrase «social justice warrior» has become a pejorative, much as «PC culture» was mocked in the»90s — as if over-earnest young people are the worst thing.

As with most such things, culture is one of a company's most powerful assets right until it isn't: the same underlying assumptions that permit an organization to scale massively constrain the ability of that same organization to change direction.

As Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and an army of like - minded souls work to change the role of women on the business side of things, others are striving to advance the role of women and minorities within the predominately male Silicon Valley engineering culture.

Additionally, some things inside its workplace need to be fixed, such as multiple reports of a sexist culture, engineers and managers sabotaging each other, and more.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

Tiggy, believe me, this sounds almost as rediculas to me as it does to you, but it is how things are in my culture.

I believe there is such a thing as Christian culture as the bedrock of Western civilization.

The dispensationalism to which the two of them subscribed had long served to reinforce a strong sense of cultural marginalization, viewing the truly faithful as a cognitive minority existing on the margins of the dominant culture, waiting for the Lord to «rapture» them out of the increasing cultural mess before things got drastically worse.

The bible is merely a reflection of stories from other cultures re-packaged to make them more easily digestible by the masses as things shifted to a new power base.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

There is some things in the bible that has good morals in it, but you can find those things in many other cultures and religions as well.

Of course, that Catholic culture was fading at exactly the moment the Land O» Lakes statement codified its necessity, and that left us only with things like Land O» Lakes and its many imitations and successors: documents that define America's Catholic colleges as institutions that exist fundamentally over against the Church.

For those who by occupation or obsession (or a mix of both) monitor such things, the Times is as good a window as we have into the perversities of what passes for — because, unfortunately, it is — our high culture.

As a house is casa in Spanish, different cultures have different names for the same thing.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

Religious liberty means one thing in an entirely Catholic culture, and quite another in a pluralistic democracy (as many have pointed out at length).

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

It is definitely true as we understand each others cultures, and histories among the many other things, I believe planet earth has a chance.

And, as always, First Things contains The Public Square, Richard John Neuhaus» popular column on religion, culture, and public life.

Our culture as a whole suffers from it... we don't produce things, we consume things.

New York Times writer Tim Kreider coined the term, «Outrage Porn,» to describe what he sees as our culture's insatiable search for things to be offended by.

Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths of human existence, as well as providing our culture with a shared vision of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.

I talk about the positive traits of hipster culture, such as the celebration of culture and «good things» (loving food, nature, art, etc), and the way that hipsters seem to genuinely appreciate God's creation and are curious and awestruck by it.

As it is, I understand many people, if not most, don't remember anything at all, and furthermore, people of other cultures and religions remember seeing things that conform to THEIR religions.

Things have evolved a little since then, as we as individuals have matured and as the culture has changed.

In one of those moments that remind us that there's a culture war going on, National Public Radio decided in 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things Considered.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The best way to protect America is to warmly welcome law abiding citizens of any faith, such a rare and wonderful thing about us, something we can hold up as unique and special, something that does nt provoke but binds loyalty.Being different, more accepting and loving than the ugliness found in anti-Christian cultures, is our greatest strength.

It is about the American melting pot embracing all cultures including Muslim cultures as well as muslim Americans embracing things uniquely American.

as a non-muslim who knows little about muslim culture (i don't really know any muslims, actually, so beyond what i know about the basics of the religion, i don't know anything about day - to - day life), i've really enjoyed learning new things about people.

This once would have been my critique of the church in Australia, but things have changed as our culture has become more secularised and selfish.

Freud was convinced that things are hidden below the surface, and he saw his scientific work as showing the instinctual sources of religion, culture, and morality.

Perhaps the culture of religion (at least as I have experienced it) so muddies our thinking concerning this thing called love.