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Summary: Stinks worse than limburger
Review: Over the years, many of my bosses have pontificated at length about this book. As I have no respect of any of them, I never read it. Recently, however, I've been working on a business dictionary that satirizes language in the workplace. Based on the people I know who rave about "Who Moved My Cheese," I figured it'd be chock full 'o fodder for my book.As usual, I was right. This book provides a simplified, quick way for managers to try to get their subordinates to do what they want, regardless of how asinine the idea may be. Basically, if you need help adapting to change, go home and swallow your gun. It's too late. While the book is 94 pages, the story itself is only 52 pages. The rest of it is three prefaces and a postscript that's purpose is to get you to buy the book for everyone you know. Don't believe me? Check out the Table of Contents .PDF above. Factor in the 1.5-inch margins, 14-point text, and numerous pictures, and this story could probably fit on an index card. The most significant thing I learned from "Who Moved My Cheese" was that self-help books exist so that the author can help himself to your money (actually, I already knew that; this book just reinforced it). Check out the back page where the author sells related services: Need the cheese calendar? How about a certification in change management (how cheesy)? If you're looking for a good laugh, read it, but save your money and just steal it from your boss's desk.
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Summary: Cheese alright. Seems like folks have caught on.
Review: We've used Cheese in workshops at my company and had good luck with it. Though, I think maybe the word is out and folks already know about the message. The last time I bought copies I purchased the recommended title, The Emotional Intelligence Quickbook and we tried that with great success! I also gave one to my husband ;) It's a neat book with a powerful message based on research. It also comes with a free emotional intelligence test online, which is a real bonus.
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Summary: I Lost My Cheese
Review: I was given "Who Moved My Cheese" as a corporte gift. It is the type of book that is meant to be read with an open mind. It doesn't offer solutions but gives readers a simple reminder that the workforce is built on continual change. I was recently downsized and lost my 'cheese' because (like the characters in the story I didn't see the "writing on the wall"). The story in this book is very childish but it may help you see corporate change in a new way. Instead, I wish I would have received Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey. Rat Race Relaxer offers practical advice and stories about the rat race. It helped me develop a better understanding of my unique skills so I was prepared to deal with corporate change instead of just reading about how change happens.
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Summary: A Modern Day Parable
Review: Some people just don't get "Who Moved My Cheese?" This is prefectly acceptable, because it will not work for everybody. Just like biblical parables, it is often interpreted in different ways. If you have not read it, I suggest that you give it a chance. I first encountered the book in graduate school and enjoyed it a great deal. Only recently, has my cheese been moved. Although prepared for my cheese to be moved, I find myself looking for my new cheese. The theme of the book deals with the adjustments or adaptations we must make in our lives periodically. All facets of life are really based in social darwinism, or survival of the fittest. While you may not like the book, you must agree that adaptation is the key to success and satisfaction in life.
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Summary: The best parable for dealing with change
Review: I have read lots of books on change management. Most of them are dry and boring. This book shows you various reactions to change and how one arrives at the right response. How mice deal with supplies of cheese provides an entertaining and educational context for this topic. The book is well worth the investment. I would recommend reading it in conjunction with Optimal Thinking--How To be Your Best Self. Optimal Thinking is the "mental software" to make the most of any situation and will help you deal with all the emotions and thoughts that stop you from making the most of change.
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Summary: OK, but overpriced
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An "interesting" idea of teaching adults by anecdotes and fairy tales... I don't want to be too harsh but I find this book overpriced. I also think that this is not a book that you will want to keep.
To give an example of a book that you will probably want to keep, which at the same time is under-priced, consider "Can We Live 150 Years?" by Dr. Tombak. A different kind of read, but a gem it its genre.
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Summary: Overrated and overly simpistic - much better options exist.
Review: This book is simply not worthy of the acclaim it has received. It probably sells well because it is such a short and easy read, but the information in the book is obvious, oversimplistic, and not useful if you are a manager looking for better performance from your team.
If you are looking for a book that will help you as a manager to get more out of your workers, try "First, Break all the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham. It will take you more time to read than this slim little booklet, but you will come away from the book with ideas you can implement in your business.
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Summary: It's all about life
Review: This book makes the reader reflect on their own personal life (and others) to spotlight life's quaranteed encounters and how to handle the circumstances. It is well written. A book I suggest for anyone to read at least once in their lifetime.
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Summary: Simplistic
Review: I read this book after checking out lots of reviews which rated it highly and I must say that I was disappointed. The central theme, in fact the only theme, of not getting complacent is drilled ad infinitum and told in an extremly childish way.
The discussion at the end is almost risible. It's like one of those local TV ads for the plumber where a woman asks a man very obviously dressed as a plumber "So can I rely on your services?" and he answers "Always!"!
This book reminded me of some very silly books I read when I was six or eight, parables trying to teach a moral in a very simplistic wasy as to appeal to someone with the mental maturity of a six year old. This book lacks depth.
On the whole, I definitely would not rate this book highly and would not recommend it to anyone I know.
In my opinion, this book simply does not serve the purpose of its being: inspiration. Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull is much better.
And, since you're reading this review, my advice to you is go look for something better for inspiration!
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Summary: Who moved it? Who really cares???
Review: I really did NOT like this book. I found the concepts contained therein to be demeaning from a management perspective. If you are looking for something profound then this is not the book for you. The contents are base at best. This is stuff that you probably should have figured out when you got your first job. I see all these 5 star reviews and I can't help but think that they must be written by people I would absolutely hate to work for: the butt kissers, the do nothing management types and the general cluseless. Let's face, if you need a parable about mice to help you understand and adapt to the corporate work environment then you will wind up in one of 2 camps: the ra-ra managers who eat this stuff up or you'll be the sucker who works for them. I giving this book 2 stars on the basis that the author managed to write more than 20 pages on what should only have been a paragraph at best.
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