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Summary: Incredible book; common sense for life!
Review: You *must* get this book. Uses simple metaphor of story characters and their search for cheese to illustrate business and life's ups and downs, and the need to move with the cheese. Can also help with stress management and successful ideas.You will want to pass this on to friends and colleagues after reading!
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Summary: A potboiler of suburban lust at assorted Sunday barbecues.
Review: Athena Dewey, granddaughter of the grand old man who made the Dewey Decimal System a tortuous impasse for elementary schoolers everywhere, is a lonely spinster with little talent and an overabundance of money. Instead of going to church and tithing properly, she wastes it flagrantly on cosmetic surgery after cosmetic surgery. She is, as you may guess, deeply in love with her plastic surgeon, Dr. Amadio Benfolio Della'Quantico: Brazilian, handsome, worldly, charming, debonair, and despotically greedy (the title comes from the insistent refrain he shreiks daily at his young servant, Antonio Barracupas. "Tonio-Grande, as the local maidens call him(apparently, few virgins among the unrepentant lot of them), is the twenty four year old orphaned son of a Brazilian nobleman, killed in what he believes to have been a plane crash over Las Vegas (but the truth is part of the shocker that comes at the end), is a lusty lad who manages to be forgiving and philosophical towards his cruel master - until he sees what the doctor has done to Athena Dewey, our lonely, fortyish, heroine-of-a-sort. What cosmetic surgery begins, Tonio transforms by novel's end, into a lusty, international, chain smoking, hard drinking, Brazilian Blues Diva with a 'tude (still not sure what that is). I highly recommend this book to fellow ministers everywhere. I've squeezed quite a few Sunday sermons out of the licentiousness luridly displayed herein. This lewd luridity is really what prevents me from awarding it 5 stars. Actually, it was quite amazingly difficult to put down.
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Summary: Brilliant marketing of timeless tips and well-worn adages
Review: Hello, This book is an historical gem. For those who remembered the last revolution in Business and Marketing this book will come as quite a surprise, because it repeats many things that we once thought correct, but in a style that is way more convincing and compelling. Moreover I liked the title, which is much more down-to earth than some of the more prosaic and ego-centric titles of the past. Well, its worth a read, even if it is to have something in common with the rest of the aspiring executive golfers and water fountain philosophers. Good reading! Regards, Martyn R Jones
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Summary: Somebody Move this Book about Moving Cheeze
Review: This has got to be the silliest, stupidest, most inane book I have ever seen, directed at management and/or business persons. What a colossal waste of a tree to print it on the paper it used. Even more to the point, what a colossal waste of time to read it. The system wouldn't let me rate it below 1 star.
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Summary: A One Star, "I.Q. One" Book
Review: What a disappointing, badly produced booklet! 93 pages of so-called advice on "adapting to change" so obvious and banal it must have been written for an "I.Q.1" nitwit...or was it meant for those managers, who still have not learned that it is their cheese, which should really be moved when it comes to reorganizing and down-sizing a company? Employees everywhere are far more adaptable and already know to expect it. They do not need to be insulted by having to read it in such simplistic, kindergarten language. I pity those, who feel comfortable at this reading level. I know I much preferred a good laugh at some of the many managerial blunders, which I read in the witty and satirical book, "Management by Vice". But then I suspect that managers, lacking in a tactful sense of humor, who merrily handout this "cheesy stuff", would likely never want something like the candid "Management by Vice" book to get into the hands of their bright employees! Who knows, it might bring about a Real Change in the way employees and investors perceive management and then, who may have to digest this "I.Q.1" booklet and whose cheese might end up being moved?!
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Summary: Incomplete story
Review: I found this book to be a disappointment primarily because it left out the answer to an important question, "Why is this cheese being moved so much?" While it does address, in a humorous way, the basic characters we find within all organizations who resist change no matter what, those who are quick to adapt to change, etc., it leaves out the motivation of the "cheese mover", who seemingly moves the cheese frequently, without planning,logic or explanation. Consequently, the message I received from this book was that the best employees are those who go along with "moving the cheese" in a robotic, unquestioning way. I am dissapointed that this comes from such a recognized author and it runs counter to good management philosophy.
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Summary: Fun to read at first, but one mistake
Review: Fun book, except for on page 44 Haw paints a picture in his mind: "He saw himself venturing out into the maze with a smile on his face." Hem never adapts to change. The discussion afterward gets boring. On page 87 Angela says, "The most powerful part of the story was when Hem laughed at his fear and went on to paint a picture in his mind, where he saw himself enjoying New Cheese." Weird mistake to write that "Even Hems can sometimes see the advantage of changing," (p. 87) when in the story Hem never did see any advantage of change?
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Summary: Antidote
Review: What you can learn from this book is how to push business books into the market: Amazon ranking 9 (as of today). It's fantastic. Now compare the success in sales with - as an example - Richard Farson's "Management of the Absurd", which is a great antidote against Johnson's book. Johnson's cheese book is about change, but surely not about change in the brains of those who promote the book. Farson, however, asks the leaders themselves to take the lead in really changing their attitude to management. Obviously that is asking for too much: Amazon ranking 22872. Farson's book ist for strong leaders who can cope with complexity and absurdity. Therefore the big majority chooses Johnson's cheese.
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Summary: Change Creates Opportunity (Not Cheese)
Review: I received _Who Moved My Cheese?_ as a Christmas 2000 gift. The book languished on my bookshelf for a good three weeks when I decided to give it a whirl. It was, after all, a Christmas gift and the guilt involved in ignoring a gift increases exponentially over time. _Cheese_ is split into three major sections. The "pre-story" which sets the stage for the actual story by first giving some background about how the story came to be. Second, the author creates a fictional gathering of friends... one of whom tells the actual Cheese story. The writing in these two sections almost forced me to stop reading altogether. The characters are terrifically simplistic and dull... the dialog follows suit. Remember junior high? Think about the stories you read then, dumb them down a bit, and you're ready to go! The actual _Cheese_ story kicks in and, well, it's actually worth it. The lessons hover around the basic idea that "Change creates opportunity" which is a good thing to remember when your life is good. It's even more important (and harder to remember) when life is hard. The story delivers the message in a palatable way using the metaphor of mice (and little people?) looking for cheese in a maze. The reason I'm not ripping on this portion of the book is that the simple messages continue to pop into my mind for the next few days and was actually useful in extricating me from sticky situations. The final part is how our fictional gathering of friends felt and dealt with the story. I have no idea what happens here as I'd had just about enough of Nathans, Angelas, and Carlos antics and set the book down for good. It is amusing to hear and read about people who have an intense negative knee-jerk reaction this story. They appear either to believe the book is an attempt at brainwashing or that it's message is just too obvious and; therefore, useless. _Cheese_ is neither. _Cheese_ creates a pleasant metaphor for delivering a simple message. Change always creates opportunity.
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Summary: This was excellent
Review: I thought that this book was well written and helped me to realize that you can't waste your life suffering over things that can't be changed...you must move on and always look ahead to the brighter things to come. Life deals everyone with difficulties, but you can't beat yourself up over them.
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