Environment...Belief...Behavior...

Did you ever sit back and watch what someone was doing? I am sure that you have! Did it ever strike you that there was a better way or had to be a better way? Have you then worked at and uncovered that better way, shared it with other people, only to have them revert back to the old way? I see this all the time. I even sometimes think that I am cursed with the ability to see better ways of doing things. It is very frustrating! Reciently at a client I was introduced to the concept of Environment...Belief...Behavior... I became extremely excited, I now knew the KEY! What we do and how we do it is the behavior, which is based on certain beliefs that are the result of the environmment that we are in. The solution is simple! Change the environment and everything will follow. HA! Boy was I wrong...Even with radical changes in the environment people still hung onto the beliefs and demonstrated the same behaviors! The problem is that the people do not understand that the environment has changed. A classic example id GM and the UAW. When you own over 50% of the world market (environment) you would hold certain beliefs which would allow for certain behaviors...GM and the UAW have a chance to accept the fact that the environment has changed, if they don't...the beliefs can't change and the behaviors never will. There is a very good chance that they will go by way of the Dodo Bird.