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Summary: not even entertaining propaganda
Review: I can enjoy entertaining propaganda as well as the next guy, but this was weak stuff. Sure, "change can be good" and sometimes we worry too much, as the book preaches ("you will see that the two mice do better when they are faced with change because they keep things simple, while the two little-people's complex brains and human emotions complicate things")But the book -- which pitches itself as something companies should have their employees read -- goes the extra mile in case you miss their real point: when you're treated unfairly, especially at work, don't complain, just move on without raising a ruckus. In the book's "discussions" section -- suposedly discussions among readers applying the book's life lessons -- they explicitly drive this point home with this and other dialogue: "I had a rough encounter with change.... The truth is, I didn't want to deal with ... [a]n unexpected change of jobs...." "You were fired?" "Well, let's just say I didn't want to go out looking for New Cheese. I thought I had a pretty good reason why change shouldn't happen to me. So I was pretty upset at the time." The book's target consumer isn't the individual reader, but the large company that wants to teach its employees to deal with workplace problems like the character who scurried away in search of new "opportunities" (the character was named "scurry" -- subtle they ain't), not like the character who "put his hands on his hips, his face turned red, and he screamed at the top of his voice, "It's not fair!'" I highly recommend this book to corporate HR officials who want to send the message that they disdain complainers, so employees with workplace problems had better deal with it or scurry on to a new job. For everyone else, go buy "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" if you're looking for a fun, useful book with clever life lessons.
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Summary: Positive Impact On View of Life
Review: While others are slamming this book (must be "Hems") -- I cannot get the basic principles of this book out of my mind or my approach to life. A lot of the concepts put forth by the authors I have seen before in various leadership and psychology courses. What these authors do that is different is take all of these concepts and put them together in a challenging, yet easy to digest and apply, nutshell that takes next to no time to read and yet can spur your thinking and the thinking of those around you constantly. Our entire office is reading the book and using it as a springboard for discussion as to where we are heading as an office. We've already made many changes, and we know more are coming. This book has also assisted me with five personal decisions in the last week since I've finished it -- two of which left me angry and frustrated at first about the situations -- but now I have moved on, instead of staying where I was at and demanding that the cheese be there for me. I am looking for new cheese elsewhere and it's not frightening but exciting. A MUST read for this time in the American culture, unless you want your career, your relationships, and your entire life to stagnate!
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Summary: Don't Let the "Cheesiness" Fool You
Review: Sometimes common sense isn't commonly practiced. If it was, we would all eat right and exercise three times a week without prompting. Who Moved My Cheese is a good reminder of some of those simple things we know about responding to change. The book takes a simplistic look at how four personality types respond to change and the consequences of those decisions. Many, if not most frontline workers will like the simplistic approach. The analytical MBA types may dismiss the book for lacking substance. But with information overload, many people do not want a graduate level course on change management. For that we can refer to authors like John Kotter. But when 50,000 people a week are buying the book, it obviously must be saying something that people want to hear. The book addresses only how an individual should respond to change on a personal basis. It doesn't really talk about the "mover of the cheese," i.e. the person responsible for implementing change and leading individuals through change. All that many people need is to be reminded of the common things that most of us know and either forget, or forget to apply. Who Moved My Cheese is an entertaining reminder for those people. Cheese Movers who are responsible for leading others through change will probably want to supplement this book with those by Kotter or other authors like Jim Collins.
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Summary: VERY INSPIRATIONAL
Review: Who Moved My Cheese is a very inspirational book for anyone who if faced with an unexpected change in their life. It makes you look at your life alot differently. Are you settling for what is comfortable(old stale cheese), or are you able to move on, accept change, and find fresh new cheese. Are you a "Scurry & Sniff", or a "Hem & Haw" ? Confused? Read the book and you'll be able to answer that question. Very easy read!
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Summary: Oops! We fell for the hype!
Review: My book club, usually an astute bunch, decided to read this book because it was on the bestseller list so long. Big mistake. It was available at our local bookstore only in hardback, so we paid nearly $20. for it--it was discounted a bit, and we like to support our local store on occasion. We felt like idiots--and you'd have to be an idiot to call this book "amazing" and "life- changing." The only life change I experienced was my wallet being $20. lighter. The author should be ashamed of himself, though I suppose he should be commended for coming up with a remarkable marketing ploy. I won't even put this book on my library shelf--and I certainly won't waste a bookplate on it. We will stick with books that inspire, teach, and motivate us from now on. That doesn't need changing!
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Summary: Are you sniffy, scurry, hem or haw?
Review: Actually, none of the above, but I'm afraid that after people read this they will want to name me as one. While the message is simple and important (be ready and able to change), we all cannot be measured so narrowly. We have all been given the gifts of various emotions (including fear), spirituality and rationality to use in our decision making process. It defies logic that we would "strip" ourselves of these gifts and make such simplistic conclusions. What I fear even more is someone concluding that I must be a "hem" or a "haw" if I don't find this book as inspirational and motivational as the author said I would.
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Summary: Its a joke, right?
Review: I think this book must be a hoax. The basic premise is so thin it could have been written in a single page. To fatten the book into handbill size, the margins and type are nearly right for those who won't use their reading glasses and print notes beside their favorite passages. A great book for lazy thinkers and non-readers who want to claim to have read a book.
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Summary: Change is Reality, Deal with It!
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is not a self-help book. It doesn't tell you what to do to improve yourself or your attitude and response regarding change. However, it does give a true view of change and our reactions to it, in a non-threatening, almost comical way. The result is, as the reader, you will be able to understand and accept your own feelings about the change process of life. Change affects everyone. Why not learn how to best deal with it?
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Summary: An eyeopener
Review: I read this book while on a plane from BWI to Moline, Ill. It helped me open up my eyes to what I want out of life and has motivated me to start acting upon it. I encouraged my husband to read it. My husband then gave it to a co-worker who he thought it would help. The co-worker gave it to his wife and now I have lost my book. But I still remember it's point and I am acting on it.
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Summary: Fun & Entertaining
Review: Yes, this book is somewhat over simplified, but as an instructor at a technical college, I constantly encounter people who are so afraid of change that they won't leave school or their minimum wage job to move on to better "cheese." I have found that those most resistant to change are those who are in the middle of change and can't cope with it. Take a lesson from Haw and learn to laugh at yourself, you'll find you cope much better.
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