Sentences with phrase «things about a culture»

This isn't about taking a social media fast or turning a blind eye to the sad things about our culture that need to change.

His plays reveal things about our culture that most Americans probably would prefer not to know.

MomsTEAM: If you could «flip a switch» and change one thing about the culture of youth sports what would it be?

Just because you have certain traditions, values, and favorite things about your culture, doesn't mean everyone will.

13, loves discovering new things about a culture and sharing her culture with others.

In addition to providing high - quality education to students in need, international teachers also learn new things about cultures, and subsequently, new things about themselves.

The thing about culture is that unless there are extremes that venture into the zone of illegal, there's not usually a right or wrong.

In the interview, don't be afraid to ask your hiring manager to point out some unique things about the culture.

Not exact matches

So, you'll have to learn to turn a deaf ear to the complaints about how the new guy or girl doesn't «get it»; doesn't know every single thing on day one; isn't fitting into the system or the culture, etc..

With wide - ranging accolades, Seth and Noah Goodman of Northstar Recycling know a thing or two about building a great business by investing in culture.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.

One of the great things about startup culture is that everyone feels they have a stake in the venture's success.

No, but jokes apart, I think the most important thing about the country is the culture, and there is an element of Nordic culture in what we do.

«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.»

«Now there is more of a culture of people thinking, «Hey, you should talk about these things even if they are rumors,»» says Floodgate's other cofounder, Ann Miura - Ko.

And that's one of the great things about the space station, it's an international space station — different countries, cultures, languages.

Fraiche knows a thing or two about serving active cultures.

Culture is a complex thing, but we do know a few things about how to characterize the cultures of different countries.

One of the things I love about the culture at Buffer is the emphasis on working smarter, not harder.

In a peak performance culture people are committed to doing everything about the fewest, most important things instead of doing a few things about everything.

[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?

«While there are many things we need to change about our culture, I believe that making Uber a more diverse and inclusive workplace is key,» Hornsey wrote.

One of the things that impressed me about CMIT was the culture, which seems to run throughout the owners, of collaboration and teamwork.

Amid a litany of accusations about Uber's «bro culture,» board member Arianna Huffington has been trying to help turn things around, and she's starting at the top — with CEO Travis Kalanick.

The main things to think about are: how your business understands and adopts technology, and whether your company culture encourages ideas to be shared, tested and learned from.

That's one of the things I like about the Asian cultures.

The best thing about being a part of a global network of employees is gaining exposure to a wide range of diverse people from different cultures and seeing and hearing what things are like in other places.

That ability — to actually shape the culture, talk about the things we're going to do, how we're going to treat each other, what we want our values to be — is different.

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

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.

'» 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.

And one of the great things about living in a global village is being able to enjoy the delights cultures other than...

While I'm willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

This is all the more relevant in light of the current discussion about Christianity and culture First Things has stimulated.

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.

I don't know the driver and am not free to judge her, but her display did cause me to reflect on how many Christians engage the broader culture, and how disconnected it often seems from the central Gospel message that the God who made us and loves us is about the business of making all things right.

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.

Another thing that I did not like about this church were their extreme prejudices towards other religions and even races and cultures.

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.

But beyond a vague allusion to «getting things right on broader matters of culture,» he offers not a clue about what that something more might be, by what means we might know it, or how it would cure the defects he sees in natural rights reasoning.

Instead we should educate ourselves about popular culture and be prepared to have a counter-narrative to the things that appear to be inconsistent.

There are many things I could say about why it is never a good idea to offer bad Christian alternatives to pop culture, but the most important thing is that you got a GREAT story out of it!

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

I don't know enough about evangelical culture to speak for them en masse but I do know many evangelicals who work in slums, garbage dumps and to stop human trafficking to say that it's not always true that only the pretty things are redemptive.

My comment about redemption, which you quoted, was basically to show that the church has done such a good job adopting culture that nobody even remembers that these things haven't always been «Christian.»

To his credit, Bruni gets a number of things right, including the most important thing: Science will not solve our culture's struggles about sexual orientation.

Whenever you believe in something without evidence, believe that this thing is ordained by the most intelligent being in the universe, and that no amount of reasoning or discussion can change your mind about it, then you make a culture war completely inevitable.

Christians, compelled by the love of Christ, must not only be the best kind of friends; we must also become the best kind of enemies — forgiving when injured, praying for and blessing those who speak against and ridicule and say untrue things about us, and refusing to get caught up in a culture of outrage.