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Summary: Can't stop the momentum
Review: Well, look at this. Over a thousand customer reviews ranging from one star to five. What does that say about corporate America? Maybe that a simple yet profound book like this can make a difference in the way employees deal with change. I have to confess I underestimated the power of this book. I gave it to a co-worker, a Stanford MBA, who was notified she was going to have to report to someone much less qualified than she was. I said, "You know, Lauren, they just moved your cheese. Read this book and see if it doesn't help." She read it over the weekend and said, "It really made me realize people all across the country are going through the same thing." Try this exercise if you're in a company going through change: give your staff this book along with one of those Harvard theory books and see which one they read. And if you're looking for another book to keep employees interested, try the new one Amazon is promoting called "Beans". People are already talking about it though it doesn't come out for a while. It just shows that there will always be a place for books that deal with the human condition -- at home OR at work.
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Summary: An insulting, childish and insipid joke
Review: This is change management for idiots. The fact that companies are adopting this as a substitute for real discussion on the nature of change and competition bespeaks a general corporate laziness. This isn't a serious discussion of anything, and is perfectly reasonable to give to small children but not adults. It hides behind a parable format as if that represents a bigger picture. All it represents is a refusal to discuss the real nature of change and anxiety in the modern business world. If you speak to your employees as if they're children that's exactly they'll treat you; as if you believe they're children.
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Summary: Good Book...
Review: The one down fall of this book in my opinion is that many companies have embraced its philosophy, and therefore are making it a "must read." This is making many folks sigh, "oh here we go again, another stupid book to read." Then when they are done, they probably are under the impression they will be downsized, laidoff, etc. I think is a "must read" for someone who has already been laid off, and wondering what to do next, or for any person about to go through a major change in life, whatever it may be. It doesn't have to be taken strictly from a professional or employment stand point. The change could be personal as well...
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Summary: Simple and Insightful
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" deals primarily with change. Some people perceive that this is only for business managers but after reading it, I understand that "Who Moved My Cheese?" is useful to just about everyone. If you are undergoing change in your life, then this is the book for you. It can be change in your personal life, career or relationships. The advice from this book is that you must understand that change is inevitable, it will come no matter what and the best thing you can do is to anticipate change so that we can adapt to it quickly. This book is short, concise and very easy to read. The author did not use jargons and I think this is good as all readers will be able to understand and benefit from the book. Most people can easily relate to some of the situations that were described. I recommend this book because I think it is helpful for people to understand more about change and how they can deal with it. Change is not necessary a bad thing. It is just a matter of how you approach it.
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Summary: doesn't move cheese for me
Review: It's a good little story, but it's too black and white. No grey area in the land of the mice/cheese maze.
I think there are better books to read out there on how to handle life. Keep this for a quick read if you need to find something to read (ie: bathroom), but don't read this and expect your whole view on life to change.
The drawings of Hee and Haw are cute though.
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Summary: Cheesy
Review: To help calm employee responses to layoffs, the authors present a parable about mice and men asserting that independent reflection betokens bad character. Compare this with the following credo: "You see the ox, comrades, admire him! He eats where we command him to eat. If we let him graze on this field, he eats. If we take him to another field where there is not enough grass, he grazes all the same. He cannot move about, he is supervised. When we tell him to pull the plough, he pulls it." Pin Yathay, in his memoire about the starvation of his family in Khmer Rouge camps ("Stay Alive, My Son", available on Amazon.com), quotes this as "an often-heard Khmer Rouge parable." Layoffs are inevitable and they produce anxiety, but the authors' response in "Who Moved My Cheese?" raises more problems than it settles. The book's main virtue lies in having sparked several parodies that contain some good laughs.
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Summary: I learn to my a guide post of life. I hope to feel you it.
Review: When i read last vacation this book. It is very short story. But this book say to our 'really our life style'. It is we will how to live in society, returned thinking that now one's life style and we will make one's life.
This book enter the stage two mouses. They lived different style. One mouse was chose stay one's country. The place is empty cheese a storehouse. The mouse want a monotonous life. But environment continuously changing to our in society. Conclusion the mouse was died.
Other mouse is leave empty cheese a storehouse. The mouse wse choose new place where many cheese a storehouse. That choice is wise. The mouse was live.
We saw different choice to two mouses. I think it is explain to how adapt one's to our society. Second mouse is adapt to our environment. We society is rapiddly changing to many thing. So we try to adapt one's to in our society. I think we learning to Everything are way to well live our life.
Once again to say we think how live one's a guide post of life.
Thank you read to my write.
Have a good day~!!
Please many review wrtie~!!!!
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Summary: I'll move my own cheese, thank you very much
Review: Break out of the maze, and stop worrying about the cheese. Never have I come closer to the mind crushing monotony and impersonality of corporate America than when I read this book. You are all mice, and there is some mad scientist who can change you life and routine at whim. Your key to survival is to learn acceptance and/or numbness to this reality. Resistance is futile. For the best cheese moving book in America, read some Ralph Waldo Emerson. Start with Self Reliance and go from there.
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Summary: So-so
Review: The message is good, but it's put forth a little too childlike. Had it been written in a style more suited for adult reading skills, I think it'd be more beneficial to people. I can see why so many have been turned off by this. But remember the bottom line here. Change happens, learn to deal with it.
Also recommended - NO ONE'S EVEN BLEEDING
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Summary: As relevant as it is simple
Review: Who moved my cheese? Well, I don't know, but this book will help you find it. It invokes a simple enough concept that you would think everyone would already have instituted it in their professional and personal lives. Amazingly, this is undoubtedly not the case. Cheese is a metaphor, first of all, for everything in life that you want or need. This simple, yet profound, allegory makes you think about your own situation and if you are, in fact, moving with the cheese, inspecting the cheese daily, and savoring the cheese that you do have while concurrently vigilantly inspecting for changes and new cheese. The most germane and significant message to me personally is that the intangible fear of change is always much greater than the actual change itself. One must, as Haw does in the story, discover that change will oftentimes lead to better cheese and is not to be feared. The audio version is especially well told. It's like listening to a children's story - simple and fun yet relevant and provocative at the same time - a seemingly unimaginable combination. Highly recommended for all.
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