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Summary: Short and Sweet
Review: I read the book in one hour. My business is very easy if one follows the helpful advice. Unfortunately, I tried everything but what really works. There is no reason to chase a method of selling that is my own,when it is clear there is a easy way. That is the lesson I learned from this book.
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Summary: Very simple, but it works....
Review: Thats just it... this book is extremely simple. I've seen other reviews that say it is for the mindless, etc. Well, with the busyness of life and the professional world, a lot of people forget how to think simple and plain. That is where this book may help. It doesn't contain any ground breaking ideas, but it does hand them out to the reader in such a simple way that you have to laugh at it. With that said, I can honestly see how many people are affected by the book... it gets them out of the "business" mindset and takes them back to the ground level long enough to make it count.
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Summary: You cannot miss this book
Review: You cannot miss this book, or else you would regret for not reading it. Although this book does not contain many pages, it contains useful insights on how you could face and manage crisis and difficulties. The author does not explicitly and clearly state what you should do when facing crisis, so you need to think about the insights behind by yourself by first identifying which character in the book you belong to. Then think about who are your competitors, who are your potential competitors who are preparing and trying to steal your cheese, and think of how you can react on their actions and how you can equip yourself.Reading this book only needs about 30 minutes, but you can gain insights for your whole life, quickly read this book and recommend to your friends. Point to note: remember to read the preface before you start to read, you will find you understand more on the background of the story and would be more interesting.
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Summary: I proposed the 5th mouse, Share
Review: Interestingly, I must be one of those few people who do not find the book "Who move my cheese" useful in a sense, but it's useful to prove a new point about the power of knowledge sharing though. My analysis goes like this: i. The book cast the world into the 4 types of people, using 4 different mice who exhibit different characteristics - Hem, Haw, Sniff and Scurry. ii. However, there are other types that would be even more effective than the model answer in the book. iii. I proposed the 5th mice named "Share". Share is a positive mice like Haw with one additional characteristic, ie. he like to share his knowledge. It's a fact that the mice stayed in one house. After every trip of locating the cheese, Share would create a simple "Knowledge Portal" in the house where he records the route to the cheese. Occansionally, when Share feels bore, he would add something interesting into his Portal, eg. a counter for the number of trips to the cheese location, draw some nice graphics to decorate the portal, etc.
With Share, the ending of the story in the book would be positively changed and dramatic. iv. We could come up with many different mice with special capability and that would change the book further, positively and entirely. Constructively, I must admit that without the book, I wouldn't be able to crystalise my mouse, Share. Thus, even though I don't find the book useful in that sense, I appreciate the 5th perspective and beyond gained as a result of the author writing this book, which might have been one of his objective.
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Summary: This cheese is off!
Review: It is a sad state of affairs when such a book rides high at the top of the best selling charts and is being paraded as an essential management text. Classes and programs have been spawned by it, it is almost de rigeur for companies to recommend to their district and store managers and it is marketed with such messianic glee that one almost expect it's words to be written in stone. Not that there is anything wrong with the central message of this book. Change and flexibility are the watchwords and to that extent this book should be applauded. Similarly, if this book were to be aimed at a target audience of line supervisors only then it might be appropriate. Let me not be churlish. I am happy that the authors have found commercial success with their product. Looking at the bigger picture however, there are serious issues involved. Is management being so dumbed down that in order to get a basic message across we, as a society, can only get an important message across with the aid of a lightweight parable about cheese and mice, replete with pictures and an explanatory homily at the end? The implications for the economic success of our country could not be clearer. For all of the tomes on management published each year management quality and productivity must be falling. Change is part and parcel of the capitalist sytem. It is inherent even pervasive in everything in the private sector. As such it is part of the process of management anyway to manage change. Even more so change has been a significantly larger part of the economic landscape in the last twenty years or so through corporate downsizing, outsourcing and much more yet the message has apparently not got through. Management, as life, is much more complicated than this book would make it seem. Use this book to read to your children at bedtime. Urge managers to look for more substantial management texts. We need them to.
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Summary: An entertaining and simple way to look at change.
Review: This is a great story and philosophy about change. The story is simple and short. It can be understood by even children I would think. I listened to the audio CD version and it made a nice quick little story on my way to work. On that edition there was also discussion about how the story was interpreted and used by several people in different occupations and situations.
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Summary: A mild method of control
Review: "Cheese" has some great insights and is a good read for employees and those with low attention spans because of its brevity. .... My company gave it to us right before they did a massive lay off of our newer workers, that left us as managers down in the mouth as we didn't see the logic or necessity in it. American companies like the one I work for often pass the buck of downsizing on change as part of life. It's a bit scary but a fact of life. But that's what it's like when you work for the man!
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese?
Review: Who Moved My Cheese? is about two little people named Hem and Haw. Also, two mices named Sniff and Scurry. They all have different characters. Such as Hem, he is very pesimistic and Haw is an optimist and knows he could achieve all his dreams. In the other hand Sniff is sniffing to find his goal and Scurry, scurries to achieve his destinies. They are all in a maze to find thier goal and thier goal is to find Cheese. Cheese is a metaphor, meaning it could be anything you want in life. When the little people found Cheese they were really happy and when the cheese was moved Hem was mad and decided to find it, but Haw decided that, that is how life is and he has to move on and look for new cheese. In the end of the story Hem did'nt find any cheese because of his pesimistic mind, and Haw & the mices found cheese.
My favorite part of this book are when Haw wrote on walls saying to follow your dreams. It ispires you to follow your dreams always and it makes you think that your cheese will be there, just as long you try your best!
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Summary: Instructive, but with one big flaw...
Review: ... which is that there are many different KINDS of cheese and that the choices in life often involve tradeoffs. My work life offers me Camembert, Cheddar, and Mozzarella, but not Brie - I know that, miss it, but can't justify changing it on those grounds. Seldom does "all" the cheese disappear - it's more a matter of SOME of it going away. Past that, it's often good advice to change - and to ensure that what you're doing is getting you "cheese" of some kind or another.
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Summary: Too simple-minded to be useful
Review: Like the "One Minute Manager", this is a very thin book with big fonts. Very easy to read, and I covered this in just one hour on the bus. The book enjoyed rave reviews, although I failed to understand why. It is a book that encourages change, because if you don't change, you will become extinct eventually. However, this is nothing new to all of us, and doesn't bring any new ideas to me. The book gives some simple and easy to understand 'principles', like: "Change happens", "The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you enjoy new cheese". All these paradigms encourage the reader to embrace change. However, it is easy to tell someone to change, but difficult to put that to action. Human nature is much too complicated to categorize into "Hem", "Haw", "Scurry" and "Sniff". Just because someone doesn't want to change doesn't mean he is afraid of change. Try telling someone who is feeding his family with his stable job to "change or be extinct", and see if he appreciates that. The advise is well-intentioned, but way to simplified. It is still a good book (and easy to read), but I think the mechanics of change is much more than telling someone to "let go of your fear". In fact, Yoda from Starwars already covered that. :)
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