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Summary: Loved "One-Minute," HATED "Cheese"
Review: This book is for middle managers trapped in their jobs by a lack of skills and an inability to innovate. If this sounds like you, then you've found the right book. The rest of us have better things to do than read dumbed-down allegories.
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Summary: Very Inspiring
Review: Who would have ever thought such a cute and simple story could change the heart of a man to aspire and achieve the dreams of his heart. I have read this book and realized I am definately not a mouse. :) When you read the book, you will understand what I mean. The story line, though simple, captures the very essence of the every day life. We all have events in our lives which make us feel comfortable. But, what if all those things are taken away? What would you do? Where would you go? These seemingly simple questions have been the deciding factor of marrages, employment and enjoyment. This simple story will give you the ability to view your situation from the point of view of a mouse, very simplisticly. Please, buy this book. Then, pass it on to someone else. You will not only enrich your life, but a friends as well.
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Summary: There¿s no accounting for taste
Review: The world is full of surprises. People whom I respect have found "Who moved my cheese?" entertaining and useful. Beats me, but there you go. So out of respect for them and any other friends who get off on this book, I'm honor-bound to say that you too may find it worth your while even if you are an intelligent adult of reasonable discernment. I respect you no less for it. But I feel equally honor-bound to say that I personally found this book awful beyond belief. Tedious, shallow, repetitive, blindingly obvious and without even a hint of an "aha" insight. Having been suckered into parting with the... $... for a half-hour yawn, I'm wondering "Who moved my brain?" It's supposed to be an allegory about the need to embrace change. I suspect that much of its sales success has been driven by corporate bulk orders from managers preparing to soften up their minions for the economic downturn. A kind of caring precursor to "Time to quit squeaking and start looking for a new job, buddy."
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Summary: A useful beginning book on change
Review: This short book starts with a story to help people understand that change is natural in the Information Age and how to best deal with it. Rather than being a victim, one learns to anticipate change and to even embrace it. This book is best suited for those just learning about change in their lives. For more sophisticated discussions about change, one will want to look for meatier sources. Another good point is that since this is told through a story, people are less likely to feel attacked by the story and what it teaches compared to someone telling them that they're wrong and need to change their lives.
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Summary: An insult to business professionals
Review: Yes, I got the positive message: look for ways to improve your situation and embrace change. I agree!! What I hate are the other messages found in this story: Every man for himself; when you find something good hoard it and don't tell anyone; don't think just run; follow your base animal instincts; give up on your friends; find cheese and forget finding water or anything else. We live in a world that demands simple well marketed answers to complex questions. This book fills that need.
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Summary: A book for managers
Review: This is a book written for company managers to make them feel good about themselves when they are making unthought-out changes that drastically affect employees. Now they can say "Here, read this book. It will help." The book says that if you have low intellegence, no loyalty, don't think, and have no ethics, you will be happy and aimlessly move from job to job. If you have any of these qualities, you will be miserable. The only way I can see this book being so successful, is that managers buy them by the hundreds. It is not worth the paper it was written on.
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Summary: American Cheese
Review: Think of that solid, old lunch cheese that many of us ate for lunch in those long-gone kindergarten years. Yes, American cheese. The stuff perfectly molded into a 3-inch square that comes wrapped in nice clear plastic, yellow, rubbary, and tastes like plastic itself. It's so simple; why, it even has a little flap at the front in case you couldn't figure out how to rip plastic off. Bland...and so...insipid. Well, that's what this book is like. I came across it by my father who brought this home, saying it was from a colleague who was promoting it, and of course, since it had the words "#1 Bestseller" emblazoned on it, I was immediately intrigued. After reading it in a disappointing ten minutes, I was wondering if I missed something that had made the book so "profound" and read it again. I could glean nothing more from it. That's because there's frankly nothing to find from the book. Sure, it makes a point through a little tale of "littlepeople" (named Hem and Haw) and "mice" (which is, in some aspects, QUITE belittling and condescending), and I do concede that it was purposefully terse. However, there has never been a book as extraneous and an outright insult to literature as this piece of writing. There are encapsulated morals in the book, each of which take one whole page, and big 1-cm letters that tell the moral as if it was an Aesop's fable, drawn over a huge picture of cheese. Quite befitting, for it is a generally cheesy and not even worth being termed a "moral". In case you missed those big blank paper-wasting "moral" spots, there's even a whole list of them, restated for you at the end. And at the end there is a little repetitive "discussion" of the issues within the book, all of which are simple restatements of the topics, not even in-depth arguments but the sort that start out "oh, I know a person who had that problem" and "that person fixed it by dealing with change". A perfect way to restate the title of the book. If anything, the point that this book makes is that corporate society is so dense, banal, and mindlessly absorbed in their work and time that all they can stand to read is this sort of book. And they nod their heads, saying that this applies to real life. But if they stopped to acutally _think_ instead of mindlessly going about their work for more than a few minutes, they would find they need no MD and PhD people sitting out there writing kindergarten picture books to confirm their thoughts.
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Summary: This helped me out of a bind - can it help you?
Review: This book helped get me out of a bind, and it may help you, also. In case you haven't read all the other reviews, the simple premise of the book is that "cheese" is a placeholder for a goal that you have in mind (like getting rich, or having good friends) and that to keep that goal in reach you need to adapt. The "cheese" moves around in your life and you need to move around, also. Seems pretty straightforward...easy enough to put into practice, right? Well, not really. If we could just understand the concept and follow through on our own, then nobody would need to read the book - they could just read the premise. But people don't learn things without going through some practice or some 'exercise'. And this book serves as that 'exercise'. Humans learn things by practicing them repeatedly. Think of some difficult sports maneuver - like throwing a great curve ball, or hitting a golf ball 250 yards down the fairway. An expert could explain the premise to you, and you could fully understand this premise, but without an 'exercise' and repeated practice, you wouldn't be able to perform the task. How many books are there describing the golf swing? Lots. How many friends of yours can consistently hit a golf ball 250 yards down the fairway? Probably not many. So if we agree that we need practice to learn a concept, then this book serves the task of letting you exercise your mind. In a clever way, the story's details are written in a generalized manner so that you can easily apply the specifics of your own life to the story. For example, the characters in the book will remind you of characters in your own life, and the actions they perform will remind you of your own actions or the actions of those around you. In my case, there was some trouble at work, and I was dissatisfied with my job. I considered quitting on a daily basis. I found myself in a tough bind. While reading this book, I began to see how my attitudes were causing me to neglect my duties, and how I had become blind to some obvious opportunities. The book placed a framework in my mind of what was going on and made suggestions for how I could change things. It helped me out of my bind. And as I find myself in another bind, this time in my personal life, I am reaching for the book to help me understand what's going on this time around. Hopefully with enough practice, I'll be able to do this on my own, but until then, I'm going to go back to this clever book for it's helpful parable.
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Summary: My Bible!!
Review: This is the most important piece of literature since the Quaran!!! It opened my eyes, and showed me the possibilities I never suspected cheese to have! Frie it, bake, stire, gourmet.... It is amazing.... Simply amazing1!
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Summary: Stop whining, and start moving!
Review: As a software developer, I am exposed to changes frequently. The technology moves quick and management always wants to incorporate the latest methods and languages. This book points out what should be obvious. When changes impact your job, or any other part of your life, you need to spend less time whining and more time figuring out the new direction. If you do this, you will arrive faster than others giving YOU the advantage! A short yet informative book that is a good slap in the face.
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