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Summary: Don't waste your time!
Review: I'll never understand the popularity of this book. I found it to be simplistic, not offering anything I didn't already know. I wish there was an option to give it 0 stars. It didn't deserve one. My copy, given to me [...] went into the trash. It's the first book I have ever thrown away. I always donate books to book fairs. I didn't want anyone else subjected to this book!
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Summary: Good book for children.
Review: Who Moved the Cheese? was a disappoint, too simplistic and too expensive. The book's insert card (listing 7 points) said it all. I saved the card and passed the book along. There are many changes that one cannot savor.
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Summary: Simple Allegory, Simple Message
Review: If you can't figure this out for yourself, you need this book. It's a real simple message, cleverly presented. But, I know, sometimes we all cannot see the forest for the trees. You can't lose by reading this book. I also recommend the book "West Point" by Norman Thomas Remick for more complete information on character and leadership.
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Summary: No Change, No Gain
Review: From Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong.
Now the world is changing but many people don't like to make any change. This book tells a story about the result of changing and NOT changing.
The story is not difficult. Only four characters with their own personalities appear. It shows the tradegy of one character who insisted on staying instead of changing. If you don't make any change, you can't get anything you want (cheese). On the other hand, another character knew that he should make a change or otherwise he would get nothing with him.
This story will make you think more about how to adapt to change and what the result is for not changing.
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Summary: Fun book!
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese" is a good, little, self-help book. It's a very short book--about 90 pages!Despite its small size, "Who Moved My Cheese?" is masterful at helping people deal with a substantial, psychological roadblock--change. "Who Moved My Cheese?" tells the story of two mice (Sniff and Scurry) and two "little people" (Hem and Haw) trapped in a maze. Cheese is a metaphor for whatever you want in your life. For the mice, it's cheese. For the "little people," it could be success, happiness, or financial security. "Change Happens. They keep moving the Cheese."
"Anticipate Change. Get ready for the cheese to move."
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"Enjoy Change. Savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of the new cheese!" (Will Haw become another self-help mouse writer?) Hem was hemmed in by his old ideas. We don't know if he ever left Cheese Station C. He may have starved, as the longer he stayed in the cheeseless station, the weaker he would become.
Anyway, learn to think more like a mouse. Don't depend upon the status quo. Realize change happens and circumstances, which may have favored you, change. Yet, you can't control change and are not entitled to things remaining the same. Be ready to move looking for new cheese. "Who Moved My Cheese?" provides inspirational guidance to those suffering job loss, downsizing, divorce, or altered life situations. It's message, to seek out new opportunities, makes the reader, faced with change, want to quit the "It's-not-fair" hand-wringing and seek opportunity. "Who Moved My Cheese?" provides a simple, powerful message to the person confronted with unwelcome change. Peter Hupalo, Author of "Thinking Like An Entrepreneur" & "Becoming An Investor"
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Summary: This Cheezy Book
Review: I cannot think of a last time when I've read such a mindless so-called "book" and fumed with such anger! I am not sure what insulted me more: the banality of the story or the "before" and "after" commentary by the author. Since the book is written in a kindergarten English, the author, probably, assumes that his readers are unable to comprehend the simplistic message of the story. If you are looking for a good self-improvement book that teaches you how to positively deal with, accept, and/or affect changes in your life, please pass this one and invest in Brian Tracy's "Maximum Achievement". Otherwise, you can simply ask yourself a million dollar question:" What would I do if I did not feel this fear?" If, on the other hand, you are planning to accept change mindlessly, as the mice does, then shut up, and be prepared to spend your life forever searching for your happiness (cheese) in a maze of someone else's making!
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Summary: Good book
Review: I found this book to be a good source of help for an employee of mine who has issues with depression. This book can be used as a good motivational tool by nearly anyone, anytime, anywhere. I also highly recommend "Open Your Mind, Open Your Life: A Book of Wisdom" by Taro Gold.
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Summary: Offers practical, intelligible, effective techniques
Review: In Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way To Deal With Change In Your Work And In Your Life, management expert Spencer Johnson offers practical, intelligible, effective techniques for dealing with inevitable workplace changes -- through the means of a parable of two mice and two mouse-sized humans in a maze. Depending upon one's personality and point of view, workplace change can be a boone or a burden. The central them of Who Moved My Cheese? is that once we perceive change as having value, then acceptance will follow. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. The point of this quickly and easily read, 94 page parable is that we as members of a workforce have to be alert to changes changes as they affect our jobs, our productivity, even our goals, and to be prepared to generate new ways of doing things when the old ways break down under the duress of marketplace factors, especially those that arrive with very little warning. Who Moved My Cheese? is also available in a paperback edition, audiocassette (abridged & unabridged), large print, and on CD-ROM.
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Summary: A Great Reading Experience!!
Review: Reading this book was a wonderful experience. Change has been pictured in a very interesting way. It is the book for people who know change is for the better but they are reluctant to change.
A must read for everyone...
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Summary: A Simple Parable with a Strong Message
Review: Who Moved My Cheese is a simple easy to read parable that explains human behavior when change occurs. My experience has that the book has a profound effect on all who read it...even those who hate it. It makes many people who do not accept change very uncomfortable. As such I think most people will either totally hate this book or love it. Even if you hate it, it will get you thinking. First, define your cheese. Is it work? Family? Money? Think, what would you do if that cheese was taken away? How would you react? This book causes you to consider these questions. I found it invaluable. It has given my team an interesting Cheese based vocabulary. Its cheap, easy to read and powerful. What is not to like.
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