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Summary: Disappointing...
Review: I listened to the book on CD. The first part of the CD is 15 minutes of hype telling how great the story is going to be. Then when the narration of the story finally begins, I found it to be simplistic to the point of being trite. It is both written and read with a tone that treats the listener like a first-grader. Unfortunately, I learned nothing. Still, for people having problems with change, it may be worthwhile.
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Summary: The Beauty is in its Simplicity
Review: This book is written as a simple parable, a moral story retold by the author among a group of friends, about the mice and the little people living in the maze, and how they deal with change. We may not want to admit that we are afraid of change, (I am!) and the simplicity of the story doesn't try to explore all nuances of change or the many areas- e.g. work, family, relationships, finances, life- where change will inevitably occur. The simple truth communicated by this story is that change happens. As we see from the characters, we can either engage with it and be proactive, or try to ignore, resist, or deny it. Neither may be entirely comfortable, but change will happen. We have input into our reactions to change, and this in turn will play into our dispositions and how well we deal with change. Therein lies its beauty. For me, the story caused me to check in with my core values- did I want to spend my energies resisting or being afraid of change, or did I want to accept change and act. For those open to it, it's a powerful little tale. But no one can tell you this stuff, not even I, so read and enjoy the story.
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Summary: It has to be a joke.
Review: I had heard that this book was written as a joke, so with that in mind, I read through it. If you don't take it seriously, it is a really hilarious book, probably worth the thirty minutes you'll spend on it. A good bathroom book, if you will. I'm only giving it three stars, though, because I'm not 100% sure it was written as a joke, and if it wasn't, then it's a really, really terrible book. I still don't believe it was intended to be serious (one of its maxims is "Smell the Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old), but I haven't read anything else by this author, and if it *wasn't* written as a joke, then it is really terrible. Dreadfully bad. So I give it three stars, because as a parody it gets 5, but as a serious business manual 1, so I took the average. Go ahead and get it, if you're looking for a laugh. And if you're somehow able to take it seriously, then maybe it will help you. Figure out how important it is to you--because The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It. It has to be a joke.
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Summary: Should this have been for children?
Review: Acclaimed as a thought provoking way to get you to look at your attitude towards change. It came off as a condesending children's book. It wanted you to identify with a character when really it was telling you who you should be by only developing one character. And, for it to think that we are not at sometimes all of the characters at once, is silly. It was shallow to imply that the mice found the cheese because of their instinct and took off without overthinking. The author never explored the dangers of mouse traps. For a more grown up read, try Managing Personal Change by Hyrum W. Smith (Reader), Stephen R. Covey.
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Summary: Life is what you make it
Review: I think this was a great book and it was very simple proving that life is simple we make it hard. When we are moved, pushed,or stray from our natural habitat or habits we sometimes find it very hard to reajust when it is really easy we just choose the hard way of adapting to change be it a career, personal, religious or otherwise we complicate it when if we would just stop think and look beyond right now we would be able to reajust much sooner.Also it sometimes takes some effort which is something all of us don't want to exert, everything in life will not stay the same and if we stay in one spot we too will find ourselves in trouble and all because we refuse to move we just do it the same way we have been doing for years even when we know the way we have been doing it is no longer working.
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Summary: A life lesson via parable
Review: Parables are an effective means to enclose unpleasant tales inside a palatable wrapper. We recognize aspects of ourselves in most of them and learn what to do in the best of them. This tale is one that is effective as a consequence of the simplicity. There are four main characters, all of which have life easy for awhile. However, once the adversity strikes, we see how each responds, which is a simple, powerful lesson about life.
No matter how hard we try or pretend it is otherwise, the world around us changes. Events beyond our control create our reality so our only hope of dealing with it is to find alternatives to what we had before. The evidence, although anecdotal, is strongly in favor of the premise that an active search for alternatives almost always yields a better situation than existed before the change. There are many lessons in this simple tale, as a fan of fables, it is one of the best that I have ever read.
There are some who deride this book as being too simple. To them, I ask that they go back and read some of the wonderful fables by Aesop. The amount of basic wisdom found in parables is not related to the simplicity of the story, but is based on how we interpret and act on it. I concur with the cover, it is a gem.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese?
Review: I read this book at work in about 15 minutes. The ideas that it was trying to get across are great, but I think that it could have done it in a more adult and mature way. I laughed through most of the book and thought that most of the story was really dumb. I guess that I was expecting a more realistic approach to the philosophy of "go get 'em". The mice and the cheese is really something that I would read to a 5 year old.
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Summary: It's a funny eye opener
Review: I really enjoyed reading Who moved my cheese. Although the book is a very quick read, it gives you some eye openers how people behave at work. I am looking for the sequel with hopefully more insights.
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Summary: excellent and purposefully vague
Review: This is a story about how to handle change. The story is purposefully vague as change is always different. The 4 characters in the story are archetypes of how people handle change: searching, activity, planning, and resisting. I read this story not from a business perspective, but from a therapy perspective. I have several clients that I feel could benefit from this book. Here is one observation that I made about the REVEIWERS: If they liked it they applied it to themselves, if they hated it they just critique the story and find its holes they never look at themselves... Makes you wonder why they were given the book in the first place...
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Summary: Cheese on!!!!!!
Review: I've always thought that I was one of those people who have always looked for...sought out change...marched to a different drummer. What I learned from this book is that in a lot of ways I am, but a still can get tooooooo comfortable and forget what's just around the corner. Not just an entertaining book, one that can change your life and everyones (hopefully) that you share it with. Cheese on!!!!! kary
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