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Summary: Living with Corporate Change
Review: For those of us who work for companies who pride themselves on being on the cutting edge, you know there are always going to be 3, 4, sometimes even 6 reorgs a year. This book is for us. Reorgs can be unsettling at best, at worst they will bring out the worst in us. This book helps you put a name to the type of person you are when it comes to change. That, in turn, helps you to face the change and deal with it in a more acceptable fashion. It is a short book and can/should be read in a single sitting. It is not like those business books where the author is full of himself and thinks only he can see the truth. This book is talking about universals - how we react to changes and how we can deal with not being in control of those changes (you know management never asks the folks in the trenches what they think of the changes they've come up with).
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Summary: corporate dogma for childish minds
Review: How can this book be a best seller? It is an embarassing statement lack of confidence by upper management to the competency or common sense of the employee. If this is the degree to which they are stooping, maybe a move to improve the human resource dept. would be money better spent.... do they really think thier employees operate on this simplistic level? Very insulting I would think. Perhaps the people who perpetuate this in corporate environments will be embarassed when the "buzz" wears off, you know, like "paradym shift", "lean and mean", and other buzz words that cost irrevocable damage to some companies. As with all fads, this too will become an embarrasing memory.
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Summary: I can see why CEOs love this
Review: The subtle, underlying message of this book is "Don't waste time fighting against bad changes: accept that bad stuff will happen to you for no good reason and just keep moving, like an animal." The animal analogy is a valid one: animals do not question or complain about changes that hurt them, they just try to survive. Any CEO would love a company full of mice--and this book is a great step along that road.Furthermore, the book's core analogy makes the insulting assumption that employees shouldn't bother with reason or analysis: pure survival instinct is all the CEO wants to see. Real humans in a maze, confronted with vanishing or moving cheese, wouldn't just whine; they'd analyze their situation and find a creative solution, instead of just going back to foraging. Maybe the cheese-deposit mechanism is stuck; maybe the cheese is shifting in a pattern that can be understood; maybe there's a way out of the freakin' maze! "Just accept it and keep moving" is not only a simpleminded philosophy, it's often dead wrong. Change is not always bad, but it should always be questioned, and opposed if it's harmful. Be a man, not a mouse.
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Summary: consider the source before rejecting the message
Review: I laughed out loud when I read the Amazon.com reader review who recommended renaming this book, "Read This, Because I Just Moved Your Cheese." Too true! Because corporate leadership has a vested interest in cajoling their worker mice into embracing the hunt for new cheese, and because they may or (more likely) may not be especially interested in their employees' personal growth, I join the many reviewers who resent being lectured to and/or talked down to by their bosses through this book. But, that doesn't mean there aren't valuable lessons in here that everyone can benefit from. I know I did, and I'm buying copies for some friends. I would strongly recommend giving this book to a friend, a loved one, or a coworker you sincerely care about. I would just as strongly caution the bosses of the world against ramming this down the throats of their entire workforce.
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Summary: Big Surprise - my boss made me read it.
Review: Admittedly, I approached this book with suspicion, since I have found the "One Minute Manager" to be one of the most idiotic and dehumanizing approaches to leadership in my lifetime. However, since my boss decided everyone in my department should read this book (which was deposited impersonally in my mailbox), I dutifully gave up a lunch hour and did so. Bosses: note what goes through the employees' heads. 1. Is this really the reading level of the average American? Or just my boss? 2. Maybe my boss is trying to tell me something. Guess I'll call back that interview offer after all. In other words, I would not recommend giving this book to any adaptible, intelligent employees whom you wish to keep. And I doubt it will affect the sheep in any way whatsoever. To individuals who want to know what the fuss is about, you'd probably better read it just so you don't look uninformed. Try your library. It's not like you need to read it more than once.
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Summary: How to welcome change
Review: An amazing story that takes you through a maze where yoou see the whole picture. Life from all sides! It focuses on how you adapt to change when it comes and why you should go on and never stop. Very easy to grasp concept for both the average person and the business person.
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Summary: suprise, suprise....
Review: I just ordered this book and I was more then suprised when has arived. The book ofered 96 pages of reading with blocks of letteres big enough to read it from any of Ljubljana scyscrapers. As normal, this one couldn't less more then 40 pages. So I try to put my disappointment away by reading this pile of paper. And it was the same. It statrts very promising, but soon this promise diminished in quite demeaning manner. Maybe this book is just good enough for HS kid. I was expecting book dealing with many ways of changing, specialy with it's practical look. But this was kind of a new-age mambo jambo, which is solving problems in black&white manner. It's a good start but don't expect to much. Try to find new cheese.
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Summary: Something interesting here...
Review: I found that almost to a man (and woman) those in the business world who loved this book were in management, and those who disliked the book were the typical empoloyees under management. It doesn't take any brains here to see that when you have something that the business world goes ga-ga over it spells trouble for the working person. In these pages are tools management will try to use to justify their poor treatment of the people under them. I've had good bosses and poor ones. The good ones knew the people reporting to them had real lives and those lives hinged on their jobs. The bad bosses looked at their people the same way the book does. Don't like that you worked long hours and still got a bad review so your boss could stay in budget and not give you a good raise? Got overlooked for a promotion? Well if you make a fuss about it then you're the one with the problem. Sorry I don't think so. It's sad really when you realize how far removed management is from the real world of what goes on. I think this is a wonderful book! It stands as an example of how the business world looks at it's employess. Cannon fodder.
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Summary: Do NOT Be Brainwashed By This Overrated Pamphlet.
Review: Our company's middle management received free copies of this book, and I read it in about 15 minutes. First of all, this is one of the silliest and most simplified ways to label and identify "achievers" and "failures" in the business world that it's absolutely SHOCKING to me that so many people are falling for it's faux-wisdom. After I finished, I learned literally NOTHING from the book that I hadn't known from my first high school business class. I call this book a "pamphlet" because it has a smaller page number than most children's picture books ... It is the ultimate rip-off. I won't spoil the story for those of you who are dying to read it, but the crux of the book's theme is "learn to adapt." It's something that everyone should already know, but the fact that it's consistently selling is probably an indication that most people DO NOT know this basic survival technique. It is amazing to me. It shows that the business world believes that the workforce cannot adapt, and that this tome of ultimate wisdom will break them out of their complacency. If you can adapt to situations, if you can find ways to solve problems, if you are able to forge ahead into unknown territory, this book is a waste of time for you. It did not enlighten me, nor did it provide me with an ounce of information I hadn't been using already in my day-to-day work.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING!!
Review: This book was written this way to give the reader a very obvious way of seeing themselves. Please read the book. From my 63 year old father to my 9 year old daughter, everyone can relate to this book. It was truly a gift to be given the opportunity to read such a well written book. Thank you Spencer Johnson!
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