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Summary: A Simple Book To Help Deal With A Complex Problem
Review: This is a very easy-to-read book that teaches you what happens to people that are afraid of change, people who do change, and people who don't change. The story consists of four character, two mice, and two people. The mice, Sniff, to sniff out the upcoming changes, and Scurry, to scurry along with the changes. The little people, Haw- he (haw haw) laughs at his own mistakes then changes, and Hem - because he never changes. To depict the ways different people respond to change, this story follows a couple of mice who learn one day that their familiarized cheese is missing. The mice quickly see that no cheese is left so they put their running shoes on and venture in to the "maze", a metaphor for other opportunities in life. Then the "little people" come. They see no cheese is left at that cheese station and are very displeased at the disruption and want to return to the (vanished cheese) past. They squeal, "Who moved my cheese?" as if there were someone to blame it on. I won't spoil the plot any more, I will let you go out and buy the book, and it is very cheap and very helpful. Change brings interruption of our familiar ways, and it's easy to complain, but a healthy person gets past this phase quickly and goes on to enjoy the future, exploring and developing the new opportunities that change also brings.
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Summary: What is this guy selling us?
Review: A book about change for executives. Well my friends if you're in management, or any lower corporate positions and have no idea about change, flexibility and the yielding dynamics of management, then you're in trouble. Maybe I'm being a little harsh since I'm an MBA student. But if you think this book will change your life, its better to read Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as a guide to the flexible leader...
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Summary: child like book
Review: PRO: FOr some reading a child-like fable can get beyond the rational and irrational emotions of being apprehensive about change, layoffs, etc to get right at the heart of the matter: things change and no one is guaranteed anything. CON: It doesn't offer real solutions. These books are being handed out by corporate management. Do they read this book? Because things often change because management misread the market, industry, etc. Look at how the big name CEOs all claim they can't tell even one quarter down the revenue in terms of revenue. Why are they getting paid so much to admit they haven't got a clue so they simply go off and layoff thousands of people to keep Wall St ( ordinary investors are part of this as well) happy. Problem is if alot of management lay people off, who's going to buy products and services? When management hands out books like this, it shows they have given up responsibility. It's like a general who tells you to sacrifice your life while he's safe and sound in the back of the battlefield. What management have to do is to come out and be the leaders they are being paid big bucks to do and rally the troops. Define strategy, get that strategy drilled down to the rank and file and get feedback. Then execute at warp speed. Save your money. I'll will give you a synopsis of what the book is telling you to do. 1. You're not guaranteed anything. 2. So don't whine about it. 3. Look ahead as your position, etc may be phased out. 4. Look at yourself as the solution. Kind of sad huh? Management isn't there to say "We're getting paid to take of the company and we're do our best to allow you to take care of the company's business." Instead, they look at you to figure things out. Sad
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Summary: Whom Cheesed My Move?
Review: I must admit, this was an impulse buy. I thought this was about Rapper Jay-Z. No modern day rhyme sayer knows chedder better than my boy Jay-Z. "Big impin spendin' cheese, big pimpin on B-L-A-Ds". Afer I gave this book a read-thru, I was suprised and delighted to learn of a race of small humans, 2 of which who live in a maze. Sometimes their cheese gets moved around and they lose their way. What I don't understand is, what's the big deal. Why don't they pretend to be lactose intolerant and one could help the other over the side, and that one could go for help.
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Summary: Good - on one topic
Review: A nice simple read but this book is being recommended a bit too strongly for what it can really deliver. I got the message about 1/4 of the way through the book. I felt beaten over the head by the time I got to the end. Also, there's much more to managing change than what is described here and unfortunately some people I see reading it come away feeling more capable to manage change than they truly are.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese
Review: Very interesting to see who we really are and how we view life and life's changes. Easy to read in less than an hour. It gives you thought for days!
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Summary: Enough Already
Review: A very simplistic and unrealistic view of embracing change. It will never reach those who really need it because they will fail to see themselves. In the harsh reality of the business world, this has little use. Maybe managers need to stop handing it out right before they downsize and realize they are not fooling anyone.
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Summary: Cheese is crap
Review: Synopsis: Comply with the changes that are imposed on you or starve, you worm. Don't complain, don't cooperate with others, don't think outside the box (I mean "maze"), and do not let it even occur to you to actually make any changes on your own. That's not your place, you only work here. Hey, but cheese moves, which is just another way of saying "shit happens." This isn't a book for those who wish to be agents of change. It's for people buried deep within a hierarchical system not of their creation and over which they have no control, and by golly, loving every minute of it. It's a good gift to your kids if you're a controlling parent, but they'll definitely wise-up by the time they hit puberty and then you'll have to pay big-time for making them read this kind of crap. For those who wish to work with other individuals and other organizations to actually make change, I suggest the similarly sized "Thunder in the Sky", Thomas Cleary's translation of two ancient Chinese texts. You can't read it in 45 minutes, it may take you a few years. But c'mon, be a man, not a mouse.
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Summary: A cute story, but not very enlightening.
Review: The book begins with old classmates meeting at a reunion. A few of them decide to get together again to find out more about what is going on in their lives. One of the characters tells a cute little story about two mice and two people who lived their life running around a maze looking for cheese. Cheese, for the little people, represents success. The main metaphor is that the two little people get stuck in a rut once they find a place where the Cheese is good and will last them forever. When things change, the little mice run off looking for new cheese, but the little people have grown too comfortable in their new place and have a harder time deciding what to do. The story is clever in the way it personifies people's inability or unwillingness to accept change, but to me it just wasn't profound enough and didn't go into enough detail. Most of what you read here you will already know, you just won't be used to an author putting it in quite this way. This is actually a self help book told like a fairy tale, and I think the author would have done better just telling the facts and leaving out the cartoon like references. Also, the book can be read in one day, so it is very short, making it's contents not quite up to snuff in the self-help genre. It's not a bad book, just a case where the author forgot to elaborate on the story.
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Summary: Must read......if you're five.
Review: This book is insulting in its simplicity. Clearly the authors (and much of corporate America, apparently) believe the common worker to be so simple minded that it's impossible to write too beneath them. Talk about dumbing down!
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