Sentences with phrase «transitioning from a culture»

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The biggest culture shock during our transition from corporate employees to business owners was the demands on our time.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

Kraft Heinz is positioned to outperform its peers as the industry transitions from a growth to mature stage owing to its strong brand portfolio & unique culture,» analyst Akshay Jagdale wrote in a note to clients Friday.

Seeing Nick leverage his Venture Partner relationship to intentionally craft culture and transition from «building a great product to building a great business», inspires the entire Help Scout family.

Heather didn't realize it at the time, but momentum was already building within Zillow Group for creating a pilot program for employees like her — highly motivated culture carriers who are interested in transitioning from non-tech to tech roles.

Making the transition from «Cool» to «Smart» also requires a culture change within city government.

Different generations of leaders in companies have transitioned from largely organizational cultures of hierarchy and bureaucracy to new atmospheres of collaboration with flatter structures.

Such a transition from a particular God to a universal God is surely a mark of true progress, in culture, in religion, and in Weltanschauung.

The transitions from primitive to archaic culture and from archaic culture to civilization were, of course, gradual.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

What I've learned is that the dynamics of today's economy, our culture's customs, and consequences of previous generational choices all add up to create a unique situation for those of us who are currently transitioning from academia to the «real world.»

Are faith transitions merely a rite of passage for 18 - 30 year - olds or is there something larger going on in the broader culture, something like what Phyllis Tickle describes in the Great Emergence as postmoderns picking and choosing the best elements from each faith tradition and trying to weld those elements into one?

Ms. Doria, 61, who was on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's arts and culture transition committee and headed her own performing arts consulting firm, died of complications from liver disease Sunday, Dec. 23, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solvFrom the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solvfrom the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

As government officials transition from being managers of public services to enablers of public service improvement through markets, co-production and other means, new ways of working must be hardwired into the core structures, processes and culture of Whitehall, Westminster and — yes — Pasc too.

The nonprofit sector isn't for everyone, but for many, particularly those making the transition from academia, the values and culture inherent in the nonprofit world may offer an exciting and rewarding career choice.

But the transition from brain - cell cultures to the brains of intact animals does not seem to bode well for astronaut resilience.

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

«The resulting hydrogel composed of physically self - assembled CarHC polymers exhibited a rapid gel - sol transition on light exposure, which enabled the facile release / recovery of 3T3 fibroblasts and human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) from 3D cultures while maintaining their viability.»

The area represents a good cross-section of human development at the time, the researchers reported, showing a transition from hunter - gatherer cultures to farming.

«In the transition from skin cells to stem cells, and then as the stem cells grew in culture and divided to produce their own daughter stem cells, the triplet repeat expansions within FXN became longer,» said Ku.

This would not be surprising as early PrEn delaminates from the ICM during the transition between ICM and epiblast and this cell sorting behaviour is reproduced in EB culture where the VE is always found on the outside.

By 8 days of in vitro culture, such EPCs achieve a mature endothelial cell phenotype (Figure 1B) and transition from a CD133high CD144low to CD133low CD144high cells (Figure 1C and 1D).

From Code Red by Lisa Lister In lots of cultures around the world, a girl's transition to womanhood is celebrated in ritual and ceremony; it's the time of coming into her creative and spiritual power, yet so many women in the western world have lacked this celebratory entry into womanhood, and this has affected everything from their attitude to their menstrual cycle, to how they view the body they currently reside in and a million things inbetwFrom Code Red by Lisa Lister In lots of cultures around the world, a girl's transition to womanhood is celebrated in ritual and ceremony; it's the time of coming into her creative and spiritual power, yet so many women in the western world have lacked this celebratory entry into womanhood, and this has affected everything from their attitude to their menstrual cycle, to how they view the body they currently reside in and a million things inbetwfrom their attitude to their menstrual cycle, to how they view the body they currently reside in and a million things inbetween.

fit for the Southern pageant circuit, she is quickly awakened to the culture of New York... Her character transitions from praising Jesus to opening an exhibit of nude collages.

Director Edgar Wright, in only his second feature, creates a star turn for Simon Pegg and a film that manages to perfectly capture the transition in our culture from Gen - X to the age of Millennials.

Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.

On the transition from HGSE to Smith: «Transitioning to a different culture was the biggest adjustment; one the students came on campus, the fun really began.

On the transition from HGSE to Smith: «Transitioning to a different culture was the biggest adjustment; one...

For many children, the transition from the last period of early childhood education to the start of primary school is their first experience of a big culture change — in the people surrounding them, the ways in which they interact, their number of peers, the types of activities they are engaged in, and their physical surroundings.

The independent school and its culture are quite different, especially if you are transitioning from a for - profit entity or even another non-profit.

This is especially true today of Catholic school searches, since many of these institutions are undergoing enormously threatening (and promising) transitions — from religious to lay leadership, from mission - inspired to vision - driven strategies, from operational to entrepreneurial leadership, from a culture of entitlement and security to a culture of competitiveness and risk.

Since transitioning from Burlington High School to Fox Hill Elementary School, I have spent the past year and a half getting acclimated to a new school culture, developing relationships with students and my new colleagues, and learning the elementary curriculum.

RP Video Library: In this video, administration, staff and students talk about the school's transition from punitive practices to restorative practices and how the shift in mindset and practice impacted relationships at the school and school culture overall.

During this session, you will: learn how to get beyond the walls of resistance by debunking the most common myths about change; strengthen your capacity to lead your staff through the change process; apply strategies that will create a school culture in which changes are sustained over time; and understand how to lead change with an unflinching commitment as you make transitions from what is to what can be.

Busy week here in mid-October — Mother Nature is working hard to transition from summer to fall, and I along with many others are prepping for the last big pop - culture convention of the year, New York Comic Con!

Making that transition from college to career means major culture shock for many students.

The culture transitions from supportive and open to closed and transactional.

She took the plunge and transitioned from the corporate world as a commercial law attorney towards devoting her time to discovering travels and cultures.

Soon followed Georgia O'Keefe who made the transition from abstraction to nature, in desert refuge from New York City and urban culture.

An exploration of sound, performance, and sculpture, Leckey's formally experimental practice examines the profound effect of technology on popular culture, the transition from analog to digital, and the forlorn of memory.

The project aims to explain to the viewer how art investigates and comments on the processes of everyday interactions between people and the world, how contemporary art practices interpret the current condition of disappearing transitions from object to subject, from nature and culture to conceptions of the world as a collective process.

Pozanti expounds on the ideas and themes that motivated 63 (Average number of days it takes to break a bad habit): the effects of technology on humans, culture and the environment, our current transition from a knowledge age to an imagination age, verification of online information, inventing a new alphabet, and envisioning new futures.

The 2 - D paintings in colored sign vinyl from her Color Theory Series quote works of the jazz - and language - inspired modernist Stuart Davis, in his transition from early Cubistic and Romantic influences to an engagement with radical politics and popular culture.

As we transition from industrial to digital culture, civilization continues to generate huge amounts of waste.

Bellows was a leading figure in the generation of artists who negotiated the transition from the Victorian to the early modern era in American culture.

The exhibition's lead title, Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photograph and Video from the Haudenschild Collection (2003 — 2005), refers to three major concepts quintessential to the exhibition and the symposium: Chinese artists» use of photographic and video camera to examine the quick transition in their culture, the incredible pace of growth in China's urban centers, and the current attention being paid to China by the rest of the industrialized world, especially the West.

His art has addressed the radical effect of technology on popular culture and art, and given form to the transition from analog to digital culture, powerfully influencing younger generations of artists.

From an emerging Transition City Los Angeles through to a thriving LA bike culture, maybe the City of Angels won't