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Summary: You need an expensive book to tell you this stuff?
Review: Why does one need a book to tell what this book tells you?Motivation begins with oneself. No matter what, you still got to get out of your chair to do whatever. This costly little book isn't going to do anything for you. To be honest, I didn't even bother to finish reading, got bored. Nice attempt by the author. Maybe this stuff works for some people. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it isn't.
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Summary: Childish cheese
Review: The first 18 pages are devoted to telling you how good the book is and who it has helped. I prefer to judge the merits of a book for myself and if Dr. Johnson feels he needs testimonials, let them be at the end where I can skip them or on the back cover as is customary in paperbacks. I feel that within the first 18 pages of a tiny book that list for $19.95 I would like to be well into the crux of the subject.The next six pages cover what should have been an introductory paragraph, having no relevance to the reader. There is a tie-in with the last 18 useless pages. The next 52 pages are interspersed with 13 pages of low-budget, page long, simple illustrations added to make this simple work have more length than text justifies. The text is in a 13 point font when an acceptable font standard is 11 point, thus adding many pages. Many pages are from 2/5 to 1/4 blank, adding to the padding, so to speak. The last 18 pages reiterate the obvious at the 5th grade level, insulting the intelligence of the reader even more that the third grade level story. Evidently we, the readers, are too simple to comprehend a few well chosen paragraphs regarding change and adaptability. We evidently also seem to need a fairy tale and a dim witted accompanying story line to assist us in comprehension of the authors completely unoriginal thoughts. Thus, the author has stretched a few paragraph of often repeated advice (given over and over for a period of at least a thousand years) into a 94 page book and an unearned $19.95. Mayhaps the high level people he deals with need to be talked to at a kindergartner level but in the future, I shall opt for original thought, not comic book level learning ...
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Summary: Quick and simple yet effective
Review: Sure it's a corny concept: bring a cute little pair of mice into the real world of parables and self-help jargon and make their story easy to follow and even easier to read...BUT THE CONCEPT WORKS! This is perhaps the simplest yet hardest to grasp message in today's world of lightening fast movement and change. I enjoyed it enough to give two friends a copy, then gave mine to a few family members. The unanimous verdict was that the message was clear and powerful: roll with the changes in life to move forward, otherwise risk being stuck in a rut of mediocrity, and sometimes failure.
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Summary: THE most important thing to know about this book
Review: If your department is ever given several copies of this book, that means that management is going to fire most of you. Trust me on this.
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Summary: Might be useful for introducing change to kids...
Review: My family has always loved Spencer Johnson's value tales, and I approached this book with great expectations. But I found it trite, pretentious, repetitious, and not as well-written as some of his other books. It was also agonizingly commercial - sprinkled throughout the book are touts to buy thousands of copies for your business so that everyone can hear the profound message that you shouldn't be afraid, change is good for you! It is written at about the seventh grade level, and as I read it, I thought it might be useful for introducing the "facts of change" to youngsters.
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Summary: Who moved my cheese
Review: I read this book twice in 2 days. then bought copied for my friends. Need I say more. So simple to learn if you are willing to try. Which character are you? Who would you rather be. Read the book. So simple.
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Summary: A tale so simple yet so true
Review: How many of us have worked in an environment in which people have happily been putting in time for years and feel very secure in that situation? Furthermore, what are the results when a manager brings about change? Of course, we all know the result is office gossip, complaints and desparate attempts to watch out for ourselves and ddefensively protect our turf. But, isn't it better to anticipate change and seek to profit by it. In my legal practice I lease space in a suite of several lawyers. A new lawyer with new plans has moved in and several lawyers have moved out. I hope that I am able to look at this change and see opportunities rather than reasons to be afraid. For example, might I be able to pick up business that might have otherwise gone to the attorneys who left? Might I be able to get referals from the new lawyer as he builds a practice which may be too busy for him to handle alone? The point of this charming tale is that we fear change and when change occurs, we must seek to determine how we would act if we were not afraid. Then, we must act accordingly. This is a short and simple book that can easily be read in one sitting but, it's lessons can change the way we look at new, unfamiliar situations. I recommend this book highly.
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Summary: Corporate Drivel
Review: If you can stomach the trite characters, the cliche' metaphore, and the patronizing tone; you'll suffer through enough of the book to discover the ridiculous message--don't think. Don't question, don't ponder, don't consider--just chase your goal like a blind rat. Don't stop to consider that perhaps you're better off without the cheese or have grown beyond the bait corporate America sets out for you. Keep your cheese.
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Summary: Corporate Claptrap
Review: I was handed this to read by my manager at a large company that was recently devoured --- er, merged --- by a gigantic corporate empire. I read the first half, then disgustedly scanned the rest, making a mental note to update my resume that night. The message I got: Be a nice little lemming and jump off the cliff with the rest of the wonderful little rodents who follow our leaders blindly until they take mercy on you and let you drown. Thank goodness I didn't have to buy it, but I want those 20 minutes of my life back!
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Summary: ... shared wisdom ...
Review: I read this book in 40 minutes -- 20 minutes on the bus on the way to work, 20 minutes on the way back. The little mouse story is cute, and the author makes a lot of sense, but all you really find out is that you need to look at yourself and think about what you will have to do when everything you count on changes. Here's the author's cheat sheet summarizing the book -- for free!: * change happens * anticipate change * monitor change * adapt to change quickly * change * enjoy change * be ready to quickly change again and again Some good lessons, great marketing, and a lot of hype. Wait for the paperback.
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