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However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.

People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

Texas Tech University is even offering a class  called Improving Your Sleep Habits.

As he got in the habit of hardwork, his grades began to soar.

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

What does this mean for our eating habits?

Good eating habits will contribute to our health

To help drivers to give up the habit of drinking.

a change in people's eating habits

When she discusses Internet habits with her patients, they often report that being online offers a "sense of belonging, and escape, excitement [and] fun," she said

Develop a habit of reading critically.

Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry.

Participation in this project helped the girls developed a new attitude towards their parents of their own homes; they've learned how to work with tools, and improve their work habits.

Americans today have different eating habits than they had in the past.

As he got in the habit of hard work, his grades began to soar.

For example, Karen Hayes, a life coach in Toronto, conducts knitting therapy programs, including Knit to Quit to help smokers give up the habit, and Knit to Heal for people coping with health crises, like a cancer diagnosis or serious illness of a family

I have a habit of reading magazine.

They may evolve new feeding habits.

They have changed the previous migration habits of certain birds.

They gradually lose the habit of migrating in winterThey prefer rubbish dumps far away to those at home.

Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always on, they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

When Stephen Covey, founder and director of the Leadership Institute, explored leadership styles in the past decade, he focused on the habits of a great number of highly effective individuals.

Living habits of monarch butterflies.

Our living habits are altered

From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.

Still, Liu isn't ready to endorse the habit of sleeping less and making up for it later.

A dog's eating habit requires regular training before it is properly established.

Compare the living habits of both species.

For weeks, I've been thinking of bigger, deeper questions: how do we make it a habit for them?

Get rid of some bad habits in our daily life.

Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a habit.

It wasn't until her friend was badly hurt that kerry became aware of her habit of finding fault.

Knowing these causes can make us examine our behavior,and correct bad habits.

Many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been formed at a very young age.

Maybe you leave a habit that is driving your family crazy.

Reading habits change with the times.

Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people.

The living habits of species in food webs.

Unpunctual people seldom realise that their habit cause problems to others.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits.

Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

Habits are a funny thing.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.

Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.

"Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd," william Wordsworth said in the 19th century.

As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.

However, when done too often, this habit can sometimes hurt more than it helps.

In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative implication.

There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can't figure out how to change people's habits.

To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of "deep work"—the ability to focus without distraction.