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Summary: Relatively simple concept
Review: This is a book for people who are afraid of change. Personally, I was attracted by the title and thought it might be an interesting book. The concept is too simple and not really useful to me because I actually love change and hate routine so it's not a book for everyone. The cheese is a symbol for what is important to us in our lives. It can be your relationship with someone, your job, etc. I've highlighted some important ideas in this book.First and foremost, the world is always changing so you must change with it. Did I tell you the concept is simple or what? Instead of questioning who moved your cheese, you should move with the cheese. The sooner you let go of the old cheese, you will find your new cheese. Don't worry too much. When you relieve yourself of all worries and fears, you will feel free. Anticipate for change. When you look for signs of change, you will start planning for the future. This will lessen the impact when change does occur. Visualize the cheese and you will find the cheese. Laugh at your mistakes. Don't be too serious. This will ensure you will move on and not remain stagnant. Enjoy change. That's it. If you feel you did not gain anything from this review, you are wrong. You gain the money you would have otherwise wasted on this book.
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Summary: Learn who you are...
Review: by reading this book. This is a great parable that can be related to any struggle we have in life.
I would recommend this book to everyone from young adults and up.
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Summary: Stress Management
Review: Recently, I visited a stress management website that recommended this book. I thought that it would be helpful because of the focus on change. Well, I have read the book three times and find it useless. The child-like story has not helped me manage the stress in my life. It did not offer any great wisdom or insight to it's readers.
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Summary: First we got chain-email, now chain-book
Review: If you've read the reviews below, you probably noticed that people don't give very high ratings for this book. Then how come the book sells so well? I think it was Amazon's best selling book a few years back. The reason is because it uses the same strategy as those chain emails. It has a nice little idea that is packaged with a referral suggestion. You'd be surprised how many people will follow the suggestion and spread out the word. Companies are also suggested to buy books for their employees, and that means hundreds or thousands of books per purchase. Just like emails, it doesn't cost much to refer the book to other people. It doesn't cost a lot to buy the book neither. So I think that's how the book became so popular. Pesonally I don't hate the book as much as some people here. It's a nice parable that might be applicable to some instances of my life.
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Summary: Insulting
Review: After my company made me sit through a seminar using the video version of this 'bestseller', I decided I had to borrow the book (would never pay for it) to see if it was as bad as the video. It was. Kiddie stuff better suited for grade-schoolers.
If you want to read something entertaining on how adults deal with professional change, try "No One's Even Bleeding" or "Delano".
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Summary: Everything That's Wrong with Corporate Education
Review: I spent seven years in the corporate/workforce training field, and never reached lower points than my run-ins with this unfortunately popular piece of tripe. My job was to train employees in the use of extremely complex software systems ' training that required deep analytical thinking by the employees. I was never more distressed than to teach a high-impact software class to a group of people who had been exposed to 'Who Moved My Cheese' in the recent past by another trainer. Any company that thinks this book is useful in the training or motivation of employees epitomizes everything that is wrong with corporate education today. This book does contain a useful premise in how employees have to deal with change and competition in the workplace. However, distilling these important matters into the inane parable of mice in a maze is a device meant for grade school students. Parables are used to teach complicated topics to kids. But using a parable to teach an important but non-complex topic to freethinking adults who are smart enough to get a job at a corporation is as nonsensical as it is insulting to their intelligence. Any company that subjects their employees to this dribble (plus the dreaded 'group activities' that go with it) is too concerned with weak trends and not concerned enough about encouraging independent and intelligent thought among their employees. If you work for a company that makes you read this book, consider working elsewhere because they obviously don't think you're very smart.
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Summary: every good company man should have this book on his desk
Review: Shame, one of those human 'beliefs and emotions' that 'fills my brain' and clouds my vision, wells up in me when I think that I am of the same genetic make-up as the rats in this book. The world is no longer controlled by governments, it's controlled by corporations. The war between them was lost long ago, and money was its bullets--except for we missed it because it wasn't covered on the nightly news. And this book is their _Mein Kampf_. _Animal Farm_ as written by the pigs.
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Summary: The Berenstein Bears of Self-Help Strike Again
Review: This book truly is a-maze-ing. Let me elaborate: The actual text starts on page 27, and the book ends on page 94. The text is 14-point font. Every other page consists of either a single paragraph or a huge wedge of Cheese with a beat-me-over-the-head-with-a-cheese-wedge observation posing as insight. ...and is a BEST SELLER! I don't know who that speaks worse of, the shysters posing as shrinks or the general public posing as Pavlov's dogs. Not only is the price highway robbery, but the concept is blatantly abusive. The premise of the story is a group of friends at a reunion, one of whom revolutionized his whole company with this story and is passing it along. He emphasizes how the whole company laughed at the corporate executive who felt this story was a waste of time and nicknamed him "Hem", the character who refuses to change. He also mentioned he had to let go the people who refused to change--i.e. the people who did not like the story. TRANSLATION: "If you think this book is a waste of time, then you are an idiot and will be mocked and destroyed while others succeed in your wake." This book certainly is a waste of time, but not too much time. But it's still a pretty expensive way to spend a half-hour. On a final note, this is an actual line from the book: "Hem and Haw continued to hem and haw."
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Summary: This Book is For Idiots...I Should Know
Review: This book is a useless waste of time. I read it carefully -- believe me -- I have the mental scars to prove it. CHEESE prepares each reader to become a mindless, unthinking automaton. The book should be avoided at all costs...unless, of course, mindless automatism is your kind of thing. Then, by all means, ENJOY!
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Summary: good to keep on hand
Review: I liked this book because it's one of those books you have to say you've read to be "in the know." Lots of corporate honchos have read this book, so you can't be left out . It was a quick read and enjoyable. It won't change the way businesses are run, but it may inspire a few workers to do their jobs the right way.
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