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Summary: Accepting changes in your life or organization
Review: This book provides an easy way for anyone to understand how to deal with changes in your life, work or other. By describing a story through four different characters, you are able to identify yourself with one of them as well as identify those in your life or organization that closely resemble some of the other book's characters. If you want a book that it is very easy to read and has a powerful message underneath, look no further than this book. I would recommend this book to who ever is dealing with changes and is having difficulties in dealing with them. This book also shows you the positive side of "moving as the cheese moves" and accepting the reality of today's dynamic world where "things" are constantly changing...
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Summary: Insulting and Condescending
Review: Useless drivel from the One Minute Author. The message seems to be "Change will happen, deal with it". Hey, folks, change has been happening ever since earth was created. If you didn't know that, where were you the last 50 million years? The author seems to think that we are not aware that the world is changing. I read this book at the bookstore during my lunch break, and definitely did NOT buy it. After reading the book, I wish there were more people like "Hem", stubborn, and resistant to change. These people die off and leave a lot more of the new cheese for the rest of us. I would rate this zero stars, but 1 star is the lowest rating they have. Leave this PoS on the shelf.
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Summary: It's Simple And Powerful
Review: The many reviewers who are giving this book one star are probably individuals who are apparently upset with their employers - and not the author. So what if the book is simple, the author is only keeping within his publisher's suggestions and guidelines for short books. Big deal. The book is simple, short but has basic strengths we need to think about. Often as humans - we simply overlook them. There is a need to sometimes pull away from your present structure (company) or other areas in your life (parenting or personal) and begin your own cheese. Stop complaining and do something about it. You must admit, it took this book to get you motivated to blow off steam. Since Amazon.com doesn't allow us a space for recommended books or comparisons, we have to force our suggestions in "added" comments into our reviews. In fact, sometimes they get in and sometimes they don't. For example, I'd like to offer some worthy words from two other authors for all adults and hope they get in. ALL people - including MOMS AND DADS - should read "Ten Things I Wished I'd Known Before Going Out Into The Real World." This book is for personal, business and even parenting. "MOMMY-CEO," by Jodie Lynn is another title which is promoted as parenting and self-help but can be utilized as personal and business. We used it in staff meetings and it opened all of our eyes with simple rules. It is about changing your life plan to follow 5 Golden Rules to enhance a better family environment (same as Cheese can do). Just like Who Moved My Cheese, the book can be interchanged among various individuals - whether you are male or female - working or not. In other words, some parenting books can be utilized as business and personal reference books and vice versa. I use Ten Things I Wished I'd Known, Mommy-CEO, and now, Who Moved My cheese in the office and in my home with my spouse and kids. For the record, Mommy-CEO is not about breaking the glass ceiling. The comparison between the three books are real and here's hoping the review editors at Amazon.com realize this and offer my suggestions for all three books as being top producers for change in business, personal, and yes, parenting. Remember, all three books can be interchanged for all people married or single with kids or without. Face it, elaborate plans falter - simple cheese is better.
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Summary: this 'cheese' stinks
Review: I am so glad I borrowed this 'book' from the library instead of parting with my hard-earned cash. However, the eight - ten hours I spent reading it are 8 hours of my life that I'm never going to get back. The sooner the public gets wise to self-help claptrap like this (some self-help books are well written and helpful - not this one), then the sooner it can stop lining the pockets of jokers like Spencer Johnson.
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Summary: Everything but the Cheese
Review: I may have been slightly prejudiced in my opinion, at first, by the reason I was presented with Who Moved the Cheese? I merely expressed the fact to my new boss that I was stressed at work, s/he immediately presented this book to everyone in my department. Bibliotherapy, I think it's called. Diagnosis: resistance to change. However, I was amused. I like small, cute animals, and there was some insight into people's reactions, a pitch for cognitive adjustment, and some human-nature stuff that almost everyone might identify with. The real Cheese with a capital "C" in this allegory, however, was lost in the maze. My particular bias is that nowhere did the author mention "Search your heart," or "Look at the values involved." The resultant credo implied is "Change (any change)is good, so hop on the TGV." If a boss could get us to swallow that, s/he'd have no management problems, no impediments, no moral imperatives, and complete control. I will agree that change is inevitable. I pray for the serenity to accept things I cannot change. And, I really do like my new boss. Perhaps it's because I am a baby-boomer, but I happen to have a yen for some of the values I see diminished in the face of change: things like civility; green, fresh areas within easy access; a human, aesthetic appeal to cities, for example. I wonder if a more studied, considerate approach to change, which preserves the best and lets go of the rest, might yield different results? Different human beings? And the big, Big Cheese: a feeling of peace and that we are on the "way of the heart', the answer to real stress relief, might not escape us. Incidentally, Mr. Spencer, are you sleeping O.K. at night?
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Summary: Strong messages, weak book
Review: I am a sophomore in high school, and our English class just finished reading this book. Very few people enjoyed it, and most of us were annoyed by the way the metaphors were presented and beaten over our heads. They were very simplistic and fairly obvious, and lacked in creativity. Though the messages were strong, helpful, and true, the book as a whole left something to be desired.
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Summary: Where are my sunglasses?
Review: I cannot believe this book is number 1. After reading it, I needed to go find my sunglasses because I had just been struck by a blinding flash of the obvious. If you need an allegory about mice in a maze to lead you to clarity in life and work, this is the book for you. However, if you want to save yourself a few bucks, here is my summary: People have a comfort zone. Sometimes you have to leave that comfrot zone. Change is hard but change is good. Be adaptable. We need Spencer Johnson to tell us this? With mice? The extended metaphor that we are all rats in a maze (which, people seem to identify with though by these reviews) gets old fast. If you need this book - go buy aesop's fables for some more deep revelations like the one in this book. This is number 1? OMG.
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Summary: A fairy tale, not a Bible
Review: (2nd post, revised version) "Who moved my cheese" is a simple and sweet fairy tale for grow-ups. The uniqueness of this book is that it avoids the arrogant "teach-you-how-to-live" attitude some other self-help book carry. Without blaming and judging its readers, it sends encouraging messages, telling people that during the difficult time of change, it is common to be afraid, to feel reluctant to let go the past. It also doesn't forget to address that when you start to make a change, things will not turn better immediately, it will take a while before you can find the right track. The whole book is written in a very considerate way, you can pretty much relate to the feelings of the characters in the book. Now... This book is NOT, as what it claimed, a business book or a management book. Although you can apply the ideas to the business/management, the book itself doesn't tell anything about business at all. I am amazed to learn from previous comments here that many companies "force" their employees to read the book. It can easily backfire. The "cheese" in the employer's eyes may be the profit of the company. Don't expect the employees to think the same way when the company is in recession, especially when it is in recession because of bad management. The "cheese" employees want could be a new job opportunity. Just keep this in mind when you force someone to read this book. It is not a "cure-all" book. It will not be a classic. It is too simple to cover all the scenarios in life. The content between the covers assures you a relaxed, casual reading, while the reviews and comments on the covers try to convince you that you are reading a new bible. One star off for the misleading hypes and ads. Without the hype, it is a good book. I recommend a real management book on how to deal with change: "Only the paranoid survive".
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Summary: A Truly Bad Sermon
Review: One other reviewer described this as simple but useful. I'd say simplistic and useless.....
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Summary: Tripe
Review: Valuable only for the feeble minded. Another opus from the 1-minute thinker. Far better is the book "Who Cut my Cheese" by Stilton Jarlsberg. This latter book (a parody) provides far more useful and realistic advice than the book by Johnson. Plus, it is a much more enjoyable read.
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