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Summary: An OK story. Could have been better.
Review: I got my copy from an Austrian colleague who thought it was a great reading. While the story is interesting, easy to read and deals with an important issue, the way it is presented is overly simplistic. The whole book revolves around the simple concept of having to deal with change, but gives few or no practical examples of companies that have accomplished that and companies that havent, how one should achieve that and what to avoid, and other important recommendations that needed to be there. A much better reading would be Jim Collins' "Good To Great: Why some companies make the leap and others dont." Collins deals with the issue of change in a chapter called 'confronting the brutal facts', and presents the matter in a much more practical and concise matters with many examples from the real world. The verdict: look somewhere else.
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Summary: Esay-to-read but not as enlightening as I thought
Review: The book tells about that changes are inevitable. Only when we are to accept that and prepare outselves for the changes ahead that we are likely to survive. As a story book, it is good to read it to the kids. However, other then the author's preaching for the inevitability of changes, there is nothing more. It leave us a lot of questions: How we are going to deal with the changes? Does the author suggest that we have to go with our instinct in searching for the "new cheese"? Looking forward is good but in which direction? How to evaluate the "right" direction?... In the rapid changing world (likely to be speeded up by the increasing use of IT/ technologies and the force of globalization), having a ready mind is not enough.
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Summary: Short little parable about change
Review: I find it interesting that this book gets such passionate reviews of either love or hate. It is a short little book that only takes a half an hour to read. It has a simple message that change is not something to be feared but can be embraced. Hopefully most of realize this on some level already. The message is told by a little story about mice in a maze. It does not deal with a lot of details; how can tell you tell when change is really for the better? what do if change is really for the worse? how do you get others to embrace change around you? etc. But it does not require a big investment to read and can help reaffirm a good thought.
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Summary: A small but true strory
Review: This book is a real story, people doesn't want to change and in this changing world we must change, or at least try to change.
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Summary: Know When to Change
Review: It seems to me that this book conveys a deeper message than just "blindly accepting change". From watching the characters it appears to stress the importance of knowing when it's time to do something different. The moral I received from this story is as follows: Be ready to change if you need to, but it does not do any good for you to be willing to change if you do not know when the time is right for change.
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Summary: Anxiety - a driving force in Life
Review: This book may have a strange title, but cheese is a real good metaphor. It is simply the best book about a subject which is rarely addressed to a larger audience. The subject is anxiety! It deals about our fears about any topic in life. As good as it gets!
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Summary: A fun way of looking at things!
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese" is a great book. It took me on a journey with 2 mice & 2 little men through the maze of life. I got sucked into the story and didn't realize until the end what lessons were being put forward. It was through a little man's journey that he realizes how he was living in the past and how through living in the present he was much more productive and more satisfied with the outcome. That is great because there are moments where I think about how I can do a task or project and if I just started doing it instead of worrying about doing it I would get a lot more things done in my life. Also, something that really stuck out for me was to have fun. Why go through life sulking around and having no fun. Heck...Life is short. I definitely recommend this book. Another book I recommend is "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" by Ariel & Shya Kane. In the first part of the book the authors suggest reading it as if it was a fantasy novel. Have fun with it! This book is about living moment to moment and having a fantastic life!
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Summary: Watch for the Axe if you're handed this book
Review: If your company hires a consultant who comes in touting this book and spouting teamwork pap when your teamwork would already make the Superbowl winning team look like 5th graders in the schoolyard send out your resume–FAST. The only thing that can be gotten from this book is one message: "Go find new cheese because we ate all the cheese here through mismanagement." It was a best seller because Enron gave all its employees a copy for last years bonus.
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Summary: Deceptively Simple... Beautifully concise
Review: Small, imaginative, comprehensive and fantastic. Who Moved My Cheese is an innovative and challenging look at how we deal with change. Why we deal with it this way as well as very useful (and simple) guidelines and suggestions for learning how to deal with change in a better, more productive manner. This book is great for managers, leaders, training professionals, HR people, and anyone who just wants to deal with change in a better more efficient manner. Sometimes, the solutions to life's most complicated problems are quite simple, instead of complicating them further, Who Moved My Cheese will simplify it in such a way that by the time you finish the book, you will feel that you can change ANYTHING!
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Summary: So Who Did Move the Cheese?
Review: The effectiveness and relevance of this moronic pamphlet can be analyzed merely by critiquing the complexity (or lack thereof) of its metaphor, without even bothering to address its insulting message. To wit: Where did the maze come from? Does it have an exit? What are the two mice and the two mouse-sized people doing there? Never mind where the cheese IS, where does it BELONG? And finally, who, after all, DID move the cheese? This book never actually answers its own title. The idea that a work of this nature is being lauded and employed by executives of Fortune 100 companies is frankly horrifying. As other reviewers here have noted, resistance to change is equated with inflexibility, fear and closed-mindedness. Apparently in the modern world of business there is no room for individual opinion, thoughtful consideration, or healthy skepticism. If you read this book prepare to have your intelligence insulted, your motives questioned and your faith in the good sense of your betters dashed. And if you take its message to heart, then god help you.
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