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...And do consider that people who are neurodiverse may struggle in this way, so a potential diagnosed (or undiagnosed) condition might impact their behaviour....
...Are people happy to give up their data in that way or is it more subtle than that? Octavius BlackI think it’s a bit more subtle than that....
...Host Isabel Berwick hears from Octavius Black, CEO and co-founder of Mind Gym, which uses behavioural science techniques to improve culture and performance for companies and their staff....
...Katie MartinWe did receive a decent volume of cheese-based correspondence to me last week, and I think our friend Demetrius was right that the cheese I consumed, I’m gonna try and pronounce it, was xinomizithra...
...“I’ve never ‘heard’ myself in that way” was the verdict of one recent alumnus....
...Octavius points out that forcing staff to undertake unconscious bias training is likely to backfire....
...It’s a good step toward productive conflict — and debating in a civil way. But there’s a long way to go, and yes, it seems, people are just getting ruder everywhere....
...The job of a company is to provide easy access to information, but without endorsing it”, says Octavius Black, chief executive of workplace training provider MindGym....
...That kind of openness goes a long way toward building trust.”...
...After a youthful dabbling with modernism, Adams soon saw the minimalists’ new simplicity of musical style as the way forward....
...As Octavius Black, chief executive of the Mind Gym, a performance management consultancy, says: “There is a risk of productivity collapse as people burn out, can’t cope, feel exhausted, and opt out....
...It turned out to be a gruelling year but what a way to begin....
...The brothers feature in the exhibition in images from the 1840s, taken by photographic pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson....
...When we started out 18 years ago at my kitchen table, it was readily dismissed; now, the way businesses use behavioural science determines their success,” said co-founder Octavius Black....
...A revolving stage is almost a prerequisite for a play that ricochets between two such different settings: Rome — where Mark Antony rules the empire alongside Caesar Octavius and Lepidus — and Egypt, where...
...Khan is efficient at showing Octavius Caesar edging out the other two members of the ruling triumvirate and Antony’s loss of his old touch in preventing the younger man’s power grab....
...“The ways they’re arranged are very sophisticated, with a careful attention to the way the original pictures were painted,” Ms Kingsley said....
...“Ask for things that matter to you but that don’t come out of your manager’s budget,” says Octavius Black, co-founder of learning and development company Mind Gym....
...“One of the biggest problems we have with the way we reason has to do with correlation,” he says....
...Toting Mary Beard’s SPQR through the X-ray line at O’Hare airport, I was pulled aside by a security guard who seemed convinced that it was a hollowed-out way of transporting weaponry on to a flight....
...It was the first non-fiction book he wrote about Greece, and in many ways it is his most passionate: a love song to the middle prong of the trident-shaped southern coast of the Peloponnese....
...Octavius Black, chief executive of The Mind Gym, says there are a number of tricks and techniques you can use to get around this....
...Octavius Caesar had virtually gained control of the ancient world before the kick-off....
...Savour the everyday in a rich and delicious way.”...
...Joaquina Kalukango’s Cleopatra (with Cake’s Antony) is pert and peremptory without being imperious; she is used to getting her own way, but not on a global scale....
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