Sentences with phrase «think as a a culture»

I think as a culture, we're struggling with not wanting to sacrifice enough to get to that place but also wanting deep, deep intimacy and everything that comes with that and how to get there.»

I think as a a culture we have this delusion that healthy foods are weird and taste strange, and «normal» foods can't be healthy.

I may have more to say on the subject later, but I think as a culture we've come to mistake self - seriousness (which The Revenant has in spades) for seriousness, and to imagine that any hint of humor (which The Martian deploys artfully) is an indicator of unseriousness.

«I think we as a culture don't really value school,» Aichelman said.

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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.»

«I think frankly, employers should try to embrace the idea behind this, especially if the company has any pretense of being a feminist organization or treating women's rights as a priority, whether it's in their corporate culture or their customer relations.

Some of the key insights, like long - term thinking, continuous learning, and simplified company structure, all serve as building blocks for his startup's culture, he said.

Lest you think of «culture» as a luxury, know that it is everything to your business as an entrepreneur.

Whatever we, as a culture and species, think we're doing to decrease waste and pollution, our actions are in a whole other world, moving in the opposite direction.

«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.»

In 1997, Apple launched the «Think Different» campaign, and it was so popular internally that it became the corporate culture as well.

I think of culture as a collective set of cognitive and emotional algorithms or «routines» that our brains access automatically.

Once thought of as a West - Coast indulgence, coffee brands have changed our taste in beverages, shifted our culture and succeeded commercially.

The 35 % of people who said they didn't have any close relationships at work may be doing themselves a disservice as 54 % of employers think strong work relationships improve company culture.

As CEO Mark McClain explained to me on April 28, «When we started the company we had the luxury of thinking about what values we wanted in our culture.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

But also when you experience that misunderstanding or being judged for your race or your culture, how difficult that is as well, I think that was one of the most difficult parts of the experience.

I think that, plus the amount people care, and the amount of empathy they have for customers, and how open we are with information — I think all of that combined is what we might label as a «startup culture.»

HubSpot co-founder and chief technical officer Dharmesh Shah is the architect and author of our Culture Code and Brian spends a lot of his time thinking about culture and people as wCulture Code and Brian spends a lot of his time thinking about culture and people as wculture and people as we grow.

In 2015, I hope unlimited vacation policies catch fire and more CEOs think of it not as merely a benefit or perk, but as part of crafting a high performance company culture built on trust and respect.

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The high freedom Googlers are given to recognize one another as important and for doing good work fosters a culture of recognition and service, helping Googlers to «think like owners rather than serfs.»

If your brand is «cutting - edge» and has a «forward - thinking» culture, then validating bitcoin and adding it as a payment method makes sense.

Methods such as packaging or marketing, once thought relevant only for aesthetic functions, are now widely recognized as vital to strategy, structure, and culture.

«I believe the brand has been invisible and I think as the brand becomes visible and we lead culture, that's going to be a huge opportunity going forward,» Niccol said during a question and answer session.

«I've seen so much solidarity in our communities — something I think we had lost as a culture with the craziness of everyday life,» Aquino said.

«Not trying to paint Evernote as some sort of Shangri - La, but it's a part of the culture that time can be taken as needed and as appropriate and I don't think we've had that problem.»

This is an extreme example, but I think as a business culture we have gone too far in «the customer is right» attitude.

Techstars Atlanta graduate Vlipsy, a startup that allows users to search for and share short, sound - enabled video clips from popular culture (think GIFs, but with sound), has raised funding from Cox Enterprises as part of a $ 1.3 million seed round.

She has been an impassioned thought leader in the culture movement and featured in books such as The Decoded Company and publications like Fast Company.

'» 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.

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 true.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

The kind of reasonable, sound THINKING theology and religious / faith ideas those of us as are here talking about, simply doesn't lend itself to a pop culture.

All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.

but when it comes to building the same culture within their own community & extending those same rights & privileges (i.e., encouraging free thought) as a microcosm of the same culture...

I think if you did a more careful analyis of many of these «differences» between men and women you would find that both the degree of difference and the prevalence for many of them would vary greatly from one culture and time to another as they are largely influenced by our environments and societal attitudes.

But I think it's appropriate for contemporary usage to put «knowledge» at the bottom, since our culture tends to see that concept merely as being in possession of a fact.

Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.

It's hard evidence that the use of pornography and erotica is on the rise among women, that it's not just part of some fringe culture (as I naively mistakenly thought), but mainstream.

Although there are undoubtedly hundreds of excellent books that can serve as wise and formative guides to growing spiritually, these seven will unsettle many of the ways you think about life and faith and culture.

The result of such confusion, Chesterton thought, was that in his own day «the cultured class is shrieking to be let out of the decent home, just as the working class is shouting to be let into it.»

Our culture doesn't want to accept what is biblical, tithing especially, and actually we should be meeting daily as in Acts, not twice a week, but let me tell your living in dream world if you think people in the church are somehow serving away after they leave.

The Jesuits in China adapted to that culture, creating a form of thinking and ceremony that became known in the Catholic church as the Chinese Rites.

Sometimes I think it's easier for us to talk about «saving millions of babies» than it is to work at creating a culture that can sustainably welcome those babies as they grow into children and adults.

To think that the mystery of a person could be contained in a binder is a scary thought to me; just another example of the corporate culture's tendency to see people as impersonal «human resources» rather than employees, workers, personnel or even «human capital.»

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Troeltsch saw Christianity as bound up with Western culture and thought it the best religious position for Westerners.

What I think is equally important as the discussion of abuse should be the recognition and discussion about the completely ingrained misogyny within Christina Culture that is often a help maid to those committing this abuse.