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Summary: Just be a good little employee.
Review: Don't question the change. Just accept it, no matter how wrong it may be. People who stand around thinkin' are just chumps.If your boss wants you to read this, be suspicious. Here, I'll save you the ten minutes it'll take to read this dumbed down, insulting, 10,000 word volume: Change? It's good. You should embrace it, not fear it. Anybody who didn't already know that? Hmmm, nobody! Anybody who thinks it's always that simple? Hmmm, nobody! Interesting.
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Summary: Wast of time
Review: This book is a waste of time. The authors should write a book about marketing such a poor product. That would be worth reading, but not this book. Some people think it is short, but it is actually really long. The whole book can be summarized in one frase: "If you are down, GO FOR IT!".
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Summary: Great Little Book
Review: When I got the book, I figured it was just the latest "management craze"... My boss suggested I should read it, so I approached it with more than a little apprehension. The book is a quick read that I wished everyone that I worked with would read and apply. Learning how to adapt to change is important and immobility is death. It is much better to "go looking for the cheese" than to wait for the cheese to come to you. Good Reading!
Gene
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Summary: Sometimes Change is not necessarily for the better ...
Review: And through out the text, there's no mention of it.
Yes, I do believe that this is a great little book, explains some of the profound truths in an easy, simple manner. Some of the wordings actually inspired me. Its very hard to come across books like this, they happen once in a long time. The narrative style is elegant. You can read it over and over again, as many times as you want, and will come across newer truths which you didnt think of before. The best part is you can read it and finish the entire book in 20 minutes! But the profoundity of facts embedded in this book is enormous. I would recommend this book to anyone (even those who are least interested in reading as a hobby). I do have something contrary to whats defined in this book: In Contrast to what the authors claim, sometimes changes are not necessarily for the better. Changes dont always result in the betterment of life. Certain situations simply may not have the right ingrediants for the change (the timing, people, environment and the dynamics being the factors). While it is always good to be prepared, it may not always be wise to encourage change. There are many, many instances in history that can be quoted as examples of. While the authors may have ignored it in their message, it certainly does not discount the greatness of the rest of the book. I just wanted to convey that there may be a slightly different angle to understanding the change process.
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Summary: If people think this is profound, we're in serious trouble.
Review: I've read dozens of articles that have referred to this text and seen that this tome has been on the various bestseller lists forever, so I finally broke down and got a copy. I have to admit I was very skeptical about it as I found the One Minute Manager, the precursor to this effort, to behave the all time worst hype-to-substance ratio I'd ever seen. This book ranks right up there on that score as well. If this is what passes as profound in today's world, then we are all in serious trouble. This book is a very short missive supposedly dealing with change. The "book" part is about 30 pages, stretched into 94 pages by using very large print, leaving lots of blank space on virtually every page and using lots of uninspired pictures. Essentially, in Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard use a fable about two mice (Scurry and Sniff) and two little people (Hem and Haw) who live in a maze. All four are used to getting a regular supply of cheese at a particular location within the maze. Then, one day, the "givers of the cheese" change the location of the food. The two mice adjust to the change quickly, immediately moving away to look for the new location of the food. Hem and Haw react very differently; they get mad, feel that they deserve the cheese, don't want to search for new cheese and generally "hem and haw" about how unfair life is. This is as sophisticated as this thing gets. While the title promises An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life all it really does is delineate the reactions of many people in the workplace to change. There is nothing of value or substance in here that would actually help anyone cope with the phenomenon of change in the workplace, or anywhere else.
This entire tome can be summed up in two sentences, as follows:
Change is an inevitable force that affects each individuals life. We must find way to cope with this force. There! I've just saved you the price of this book!
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Summary: Worthless
Review: Absolutely worthless book, unless you have really reached the bottom of your once successful career, or hold one of those "corporate strategic BS management / leadership" positions where you have to BS your way through to the management and colleagues all the time.
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Summary: Don't Bother ...
Review: To me, this reads as a simplistic cliche.
And the Mouse-Cheeze metaphor only distracts
further from the book's transparent message.
Don't know how this made it to best-seller
category. Don't waste your time ...
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Summary: A book inside the box...
Review: I won't award this book one star for the same reason that I rarely offer five. Both are reserved for exceptional representations of the class good or bad, and if there is one thing this book isn't, it's exceptional. It's not exceptionally well written, not exceptionally appropriate, not exceptionally good, not exceptionally bad... in a word, it's quite unexceptional. It's a cute re-hash of the same tired think-outside-of-the-boxisms we've all heard for years, only this time, there's some cheese and a bunch of anthopomorphized rodentia serving as the principle characters. There is a subtle irony in writing a book about change that's fundamentally indistinguishable from all other books about change that seems to be completely lost on the author. Trust me, if you're not a complete halfwit, you've experienced change your whole life, and there is nothing new that this book has to offer, really. Not even a new allegory.
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Summary: Helpful at work
Review: My coworkers and I read this book when going through rough times at the office and it really helped give us a fresh perspective on some stressful changes that were coming down from the top. So if you need a "new look" at a difficult work situation, I recommend this book. It will only take a few hours of your time and is very easy to read. It made a big difference in how I view opportunities.
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Summary: Light and fluffy
Review: Not quite as deep and meaningful as a lot of people would lead you to believe it is. If you're down with not getting yourself into a rut and dealing with change then the underlying message in this book will leave you thinking,"that's it"? I'm sure the message would be eye opening for some, but it's tough to believe that it will help people who have been working for more then a couple of years in the corporate world.
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