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Summary: Simple fact made visual and olfactory.
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" simply put, is a parable. What is a parable? It is a story that teaches us a very simple fact through symbolism. The "fact" of "Who Moved My Cheese" is easy enough-- change happens, get ahead of it, and you will be made happy by it; get behind it, and you will get hurt by it. The story of the little men and the mice and the cheese "the thing that makes us happy" really drives the point home-- and YES, the book does make a couple of profound points, even if they are simple points. The most important point the book makes is that we should keep our eyes open to indicators of what is about to happen. I wish I had read this book three years ago. I was going through a situation that could have been avoided if only I had been watching out. All the indicators were there. My "cheese" got moved, but if I had been watching, I would not have found myself in a predicament where I had to look for new cheese. I could have been the agent of change instead of the victim of change. It's one thing to know intellectually that change is coming and we must adjust-- it's quite another to be able to see the knowledge and smell the knowledge the way "Who Moved My Cheese?" makes you. "Who moved My Cheese" is similar in tone to the book "Castle of Wisdom" by Rhett Ellis, which is perhaps the greatest book of this kind ever-- short, symbollic, and powerful.
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Summary: Whoever Moved My Cheese Didn't Have to Work at It
Review: The most superficial work about work that I've read yet. It's hard to believe that anyone is taking this seriously - there's no substance to it at all.
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Summary: Good for those afraid of change.
Review: This book is a very fast read. In the beginning some friends are gathering together to talk about their lives. One of the friends tells this story about 4 characters who live in a maze and search for cheese. Upon finding the cheese, the characters are all very happy, but when the cheese is gone, 2 of the characters quickly move on to find more cheese, 1 moves on reluctantly when he realizes that he does not have a choice, and 1 stays in the same place, whining and crying that his cheese is gone. The cheese is a metaphor for anything you might want. The maze is obviously the path you must travel before reaching your goal. The moral of the story is to understand that when something is taken from you, whining and crying about it won't help. You must take action, commit yourself to your goal, and envision yourself reaching the goal before you meet with success.
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Summary: So much hype on this . . . good and bad
Review: After hearing how awful and how wonderful this book is I decided to read it for myself. It has something to say (at a very basic level) but I can understand why anyone wanting more substance than a parable can provide would be less than impressed. But what do you expect from a few thin pages? In fact the book is blown up to appear to have more content than it actually does. For more substance, I'd suggest "Filling the Glass" or "Shakelton's Way" or even Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
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Summary: More Corporate Mind Control Propaganda
Review: This is a best seller? I suppose it gained that status because large corporations put in orders for thousands of copies and gave them to their employees, or required that employees buy the book. Sniff and Scurry represent the mindless blue-collar laborers who, when their jobs are eliminated and sent to a third-world country where labor is cheap, have no choice but to sniff out new employment if they can, no questions asked. Hem and Haw represent the more "mindful" middle management corps who are supposed to swallow anything the all-powerful cheese movers tell them. I was insulted by this book and I hope that workers see through its propaganda. Not all change is needful and good, especially when it is imposed upon us for the self-serving purposes of mindless and heartless corporations. Wake up! And refuse to eat this moldy cheese.
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Summary: Life isn't a piece of cheese.
Review: This book is an overly simplistic way to look at changes in ones's life. Some changes occur suddenly without warning! I found the book to be discouraging. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that was involved in unwanted changes in their lives.
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Summary: Shows the pitfalls of complacency and the liberating...
Review: effects of embracing the concepts of change, development and curiosity. This is particularly true insofar as career and financial well being are concerned.Although it seems to me that the lessons being taught within should be readily apparent to any student of history and even more currently anyone who has lived through the downsizing revolution and the transition from the industrial age to the age of service and technology. The sad thing is that the truths expressed within are elementary and adults shouldn't need to have a childrens story approach with regard to these teachings. If people were actually paying attention to the world they live in a book like this wouldn't even sell a single copy. Wake up!
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Summary: Basic Common Sense- But Good
Review: A quick read of course, in the style of "The One-Minute Manager", but with some good ideas. So much of what is taught today lacks basic common sense, but this book has plenty. You may not walk away saying, "I didn't know that!", but rather "This makes me think about change in a different way." An enjoyable read, that might even get good conversations going!
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Summary: A cute lesson about handling change.
Review: Johnson uses this cute story to show how differently individuals can deal with change. There are four characters (two mice and two little people) who must hunt a maze to find their cheese. Once they locate the cheese, Johnson shows how differently individuals "settle" into the routine of life. Once the cheese is gone, he shows again how differently we react when forced to change something we did not wish to change. After going through many organizational changes at work in recent years, I have seen how each characterization described in this book really does exist in the work environment. I have also seen how it applies to changes in personal life, spiritual life, etc. This book can be applied to any aspect of "change" that needs to be faced in anyone's life. The moral of the story, don't sit around moping, MOVE ahead! Move ON!
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Summary: Great Book - Metaphor for Change worth hearing again...
Review: I loved this book. While many people fault this book for being too simple, I think that it rings true. And as a metaphor - it really allows you to re-read it and apply it to different situations, and see your life, and your environment, in a new light. Also, it is a very fun book to read. I don't think something has to be new or philosophically profound, to be valuable and useful. Who Moved My Cheese was valuable and useful for me. I have shared it with at least 4 or 5 other people and they all enjoyed it and found that it was great! I think this is a case of the glass being half full or half empty. For me the glass is half full. But all it takes is a few sips from this simple fable to be refreshed. I highly recommend it to people in business, although it really applies to everyone and the nature of change. It helps re-affirm the idea that you need to be pro-active, and need to be willing to change as your environment changes. I think this is one of those lessons that your head may know, but it is alway useful to re-learn it on a deeper level. Other books about personal growth and transformation that I recommend are: "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" by Ariel and Shya Kane "The Four Agreements" by Ruiz "The Power of Now" by Tolle
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