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Summary: A Easy To Follow Guide For Those Who Don't Do Change Well.
Review: I have been thinking about this review for several days now, as I see that there are quite a few people not giving this book a very high rating.Just because the book is easy to read and simple to follow in logic, I feel this book for those people who do not do change well in life and for those who just flat out don't like changes in lifestyle COULD help that person identify with the mice and their quest for the cheese. In order to get the cheese, change is having to be thought of and the route to it thought through. I think if it were a more scholarly written book and not as simplified in the "story", the moral and points of "how to" go through changes without a full understanding of WHY and or HOW to map out the way to get to the top/cheese could be lost to those already stumbling their way through the maze of life. Even though I have and do read more scholarly books...I found this book helpful in thinking differently in changes I needed to make in my life and in making a more clear cut path in getting that which I aimed for as a life changing goal in my personal life. I think it is well worth the money invested to buy this book and read through it, afterwards think through and apply it to one's one life's goals. If the reader will go into the book with an open mind...an hour or less from when the first sentence is read, one could be restructuring just what it is one really wants in life and how he/she can best obtained and reach that goal.
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Summary: Inflated way to make an important, but simple, point
Review: Not a bad little book, but the point can be made a lot more quickly (and cheaply): To dramatize the ways different people respond to change, the story follows a couple of mice who discover one day that their accustomed cheese is missing. One, displeased at the disruption and wanting to return to the (vanished) past, squeals, "Who moved my cheese?" (as if there were somebody to blame). He thinks righteous indignation is the way to go. The other, after getting over the initial shock and realizing that he'd better be a citizen of the (inevitable) future, starts looking around for new cheese (how the change can mean opportunity for him). And after a number of false starts, he finds it. Change brings the disruption of our comfortable ways, and it's easy to grumble about that and hanker after the good old days. But the healthy person gets past this mode quickly and goes on to enjoy the adventure--exploring and developing the new opportunities that change also brings.
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Summary: Stinky cheese
Review: 3Theproblems with this book are basically two: it's expensive and it'srubbish. Written on a 7th grade reading level, it offers uppreposterously simple advice on how to deal with change in your life,especially at work. I and other reviewers have already done it here,so save some bucks and read about 5 of the reviews and you'vebasically read the book. The advice is this: "Expectchange." "Be flexible." Thank you, thank you... Feelfree to send me $20 (the coverprice of the book) for this amazingadvice, and be sure to share it with your friends as well.I agreethat we're living in a world of entropy but it's part of the humancondition to not like to change ourselves or our behavior. What isneeded is not a book with pithy lil' phrases like "expectchange" written as if it's for a 2nd grader beginning reader (mydaughter, who IS in 2nd grade, easily read this book but found itbooooring-- so did I). What we would need INSTEAD of this book issomething like a behavior modification plan or definite examples onhow to deal with real change in your life. How to effectively dealwith your boss coming to you and saying, "we're reengineering ourparadigms..." so you can actually keep your job and be happy...Or at the very least, how to revamp your resume so you can-- like thelegendary mice in the maze in "Cheese..."-- get the heck OUTof there and go find new, fresher cheese someplace else.
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Summary: Worthwhile Simplicity
Review: When one is faced with the stress of a life change problem that feels intolerable and insoluble, the last thing one needs is a jargon-filled, new-agey-fluff offering, or a lofty pedantic tome -and there are a lot of those on the market. A person with a problem they can't resolve needs something to bite into, that clearly communicates a message, and gets a person moving and motivated. "Cheese" offers just that. Yes, this book may be a simple story, simply-worded, but is EFFECTIVE in its message. Maybe some of the wisest advice comes in the form of those upside-the-head reminders, stated in the most simple of ways. We need to get the message, get it clearly, get it again, and then go out and do it. This book offers that very nicely.
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Summary: A tool for leadership!
Review: The right tool in the wrong the hands can seldom be used properly, even less often appreciated adequately. This book is an easy read and non-threatening, yet it can serve as an incredibly potent tool, in the proper hands, to use as a communication vehicle to drive behavioral recognition and change. For those who sought answers with this book, they were or will no doubt be disappointed. For the insightful, they too will not find the answer .... they will find something much more valuable ... a better set of questions! I hope you enjoy this wonderful tool. Appropriate for use with children and or adults.
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Summary: Absolutely nothing new
Review: Our beliefs control our actions. Embrace change rather than fear it. Face our fears, don't hide from them. Use visualization to help achieve our goals. If you've just read these 4 sentences, then save your money because you've pretty much just read the book. The concepts in this book are so simplistic as to be useless. While I generally don't disagree with the points the author makes, it is hard for me to believe that there is an adult anywhere who isn't already familiar with them. This book might be a good way to teach these principles to a child, but for a business person, it is insulting to the intelligence
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Summary: Worth Reading to prep for "Who Cut the Cheese"
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is more than a book - it's a phenomenon. For some people, it changes lives. For others - it's a bit hard to take seriously. For BOTH of those groups, I recommend checking out the definitive parody "Who Cut the Cheese?" by Stilton Jarlsberg MD (Crown Publishing - be sure to check the author's name, as there's a book about "gas" with the same name). The two books coexist happily on my book shelf: I read "Moved" when I need a little jumpstart in my motivation, and I read "Cut" when I just need a laugh to take some of the stress off. Together, they make an effective team!
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Summary: Who Moved My Money From My Wallet?
Review: Actually, I didn't buy the book. I didn't have to. I read it in the book store in fifteen minutes. Oh, not all of it; I didn't have to. Who Moved My Cheese is another non-book like the one about "everything I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten" or whatever that non-book was. Remember, "take a nap; have cookies and milk." That author milked us through several more similar non-books with similar titles. Look for "Who Moved My Cheese For Teen-agers" and "Who Moved My Brié For Baby Boomers" coming soon. Or, "More Chicken Soup For My Uncle Sol" coming to bookstores across the country. It took two authors to tell us what I can tell you in two sentences? "If you expect to get something from doing what doesn't work time after time, try something different." Or, "Be Ready To Change: It's Part of The Human Condition". This all started with Richard Bach's non-book in 1974, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", a barely disguised trop on "The Little Prince". Well, they''re short reads, offer simple solutions for complex problems and americans love simple, little reads. Better to read something substantial like de Botton's, "Consolations of Philosophy". Check it out.
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Summary: It's like Machiaveli -- only completely stupid.
Review: Heraclitus was more succinct in his assertion that nothing is permanent except change. This is the essence -- no -- the entire substance of this poorly written, highly over-rated and overpriced piece of corporate dogma. This book is a particularly insipid parable in which workers are compared to mice. In a particularly dehumanizing fasion, the mice are more adept at managing their lives than the human workers. I found this book to be extremely simplistic, pathetically myopic and highly offensive. Anyone who posesses the basic intelligence of the average houseplant should find the main concepts in this book to be intuitively obvious. Printed in large, easy to read type with enormous margins, no big words and a picture of cheese on every other page, Who Moved My Cheese is an easy read for any four year old who has mastered the art of Hooked on Phonics. This is quite possibly the single worst book on career management ever written. Please save your money for something worthwhile.
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Summary: Not what I had expected...
Review: My broker purchased this book, & loaned it to me. I was really excited about reading it. Once I started, I must say it wasn't what I was expecting. Of course I understood the moral of the story, but it just seemed a little silly to me. At best, I guess I could say, it was a "cute" little story. Wonder if the author could write another version, maybe for the "grownups" this time? J.F. Lyles Eddyville,KY.
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