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Summary: Save Your Money & buy the bookmark
Review: Of all the books I have read this one reminds me of baseball most. I heard it once said of baseball that it is three minutes of action packed into four hours. This book is seven simple thoughts packed into 94 insipid pages. The "Who Moved My Cheese" bookmark I was given with the book delivered the same concepts as the book. The bookmark, however, presented the concepts more succinctly and just as well.The problem is not the idea of embracing change. The idea that we should expect, anticipate, and embrace change is valuable. The problem is in the way the author chose to present it. While the story of the mice was cute, it would have been tolerable if it was presented as part of a text that dealt with the benefits of change and an analysis on why people are resistant to change. Instead, the story of the mice is couched in a story of some people at a class reunion. The people at the reunion superficially discuss the application of the ideas in the mouse story. Early in the book an individual disagrees with the "group think" and is ridiculed in the book, a handy way for the author to deal with dissent. How much better this book could have been if a more disciplined discussion of change was included. This book is such an oversimplification of the issue change that it is virtually worthless. Again, save your time and money; buy the bookmark. It is just as helpful as the book.
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Summary: This literary classic smells of Gorgonzola
Review: My boss forced me and others to read this marvel of literature to pave the way for a new 'exciting' (why are management techniques always veiled in excitement?) policy at a luxury menswear store. It reflects his intelligence and character. I am not exagerating when I claim that this book embarasses its author and insults the reader with the most banal statements since Cathy Lee. The reason the cheese was moved is because it started to smell! Who cut the Cheese is what I asked when I finished this masterpiece. If you're thinking of having your employees read it, it's guaranteed to make them hate you and ridicule you. The subject of change requires thoughtful insight not childish tripe.
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Summary: The Only Constant in Life is Change.
Review: The story is simple and clear and the lessons from this book can apply to anyone, anywhere, at anytime in their life. I was reading this book as I was making a job change and also ending a personal relationship. The lessons from this book saved a lot on frustrations on both counts. It is amazing to me the people I see in my life who refuse to change for whatever reason and then complain that everyone else is ruining their lives. For critics who dislike the book I really wonder if they are living by its everyday principles. This is one of the few book where there is something in it for everyone!
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Summary: Great insight!
Review: I had to read this book for a class this semester. When the professor told us about it, we all thought it was a joke. I don't have time to read a kid's story....I have 5 other classes to worry about. However, I got quite a lot out of this little book. It has so much wisdom and insight that applies to many facets of life, not just in the business world. It took under an hour to read, and it is well worth your time to read it too.
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Summary: Change Happens
Review: Spencer Johnson uses a simplistic story of 2 mice and 2 mouse-sized little guys to remind us of what the Buddhist have harped at for centuries: the impermanent nature of life. You "read the last chapter first" and "One Minute Manager" folks can get the essence of the message with the 7 points on page 74. Everybody else should read the whole book (with big print and 94 small pages, it ain't War and Peace, people) and turn in your 1000-word essay on how the message applies to your life by next Friday. After charging through the book on a Sunday morning, I thought "I KNEW all that!" but it was a cute way of reminding me to review the book's vital message about my attitude towards the constant changes life throws at me again. List price of $19.95 is pretty steep, so if you're a Cheap Charlie or Pennypinching Penelope, borrow this from a friend or the library, read it once, and make a poster of the seven points for the bathroom mirror (it's cheating to just rip out page 74). Otherwise, buy the book to reread for a quick boost for those times life kicks you in the butt.
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Summary: A somewhat motivational book
Review: I think that this book is overrated. The moral of the story, simply, is to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things. Dont get "hemmed" in. Easy enough. I find more inspiration in reading the autobiographies of people who have been there and done that, as opposed to a parable about 2 mice and 2 short people.
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Summary: Not much in it.
Review: With apologies to the author and others who may have worked hard to produce a helpful book about change, for those who wish to give serious thought to the subject, there is very little here to justify buying and reading this book. The ideas it contains could be covered thoroughly in 5 or 6 pages. The concept is the same one we've seen repeatedly in the past; inform people about a serious, real-world topic through fun and games and they'll learn without even realizing it. The result is a book that is 95% fluff and 5% "something-you-can-use". That is not to say that there is no audience for this book. If you find that the typical self-help book covering similar subjects is simply too dry to palatte, this book could be beneficial. For those folks, this book does at least provide a frame of reference from which to begin pondering and altering their attitudes toward change.
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Summary: Another Cheesy Little Self Help Book
Review: that will sell a bazillion copies and become the guiding light to a generation of corporate types...until the next gimmick comes along. Ok, that's the negative. The positive side it, it's really fairly good! Johnson makes some good points. "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" Is a powerful self-assessing tool. I've been thinking of that statement ever since reading the book. It's definitely formulae-based, it's definitely a gimmick. But doggone it, I've had my cheese moved before, and on some level it did speak to me! It's definitely a worthy read. Cover price of (...) NO WAY! It's more of a pamphlet than a book...you can read it in a solid 45 mins to an hour. Amazon's price is in the ballpark. Better yet, your boss could buy it for you! But watchout, he may have his fingers on your cheese!
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Summary: So simple that you don't need this book
Review: The main themes are so simple that if you truly need this book to get the idea, then you aren't going to succeed anyway. Basically, change happens; take advantage of the new stuff and trends and directions; fighting all change is futile; and don't live with your head in the sand. There was absolutely nothing new here. But I am sure that you can give you money to this author because he is following the new trend: Give the most absolute basics of common sense in book form and millions will buy it. I truly wish someone had written this review for me before I had purchased this. If you really are curious as to why this is a best seller: get it from your library.
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Summary: A-MAZE-ING helps you with relationships, job searching, etc.
Review: Having been divorced for 12 years, I was afraid of "new cheese". This book helped me face my fears / uncertainty, and move into new realms of "looking" for "new cheese". I also began looking "into" the cheese station, rather than being attracted to the few morsels that were just on the outside. This allowed me to look for delectible cheese rather than just any ole cheese. I also learned not to overanalyze, to expect and enjoy change.
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