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Summary: Boring, stupid, obvious
Review: This book spread through my office like chicken pox in a nursery school. I'm still looking for the moron who brought it in. The only thing interesting about this book is the way the author manages to bore and insult your intelligence at the same time. My advice, don't waste your time on it.
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: Was forced to read this book, and watch the video, at work. Quite depressing how low an opinion of other people's intelligence the author has. I don't think that the book could be dumbed down any further. All in all, I found it quite worthless. All it's points were common sense anyways!
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Summary: Clarifies stuff we already knew.
Review: So it's true - we all already know this stuff anyway. But this does help in seeing what kind of people we are and how we react to change. I found the appendix that talks about the book more interesting than the book itself.
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Summary: Refreshing change from the typical business "self help" book
Review: For those of us who have read more than our share of business-related self-help books, this one is a refreshing change because it is short and makes its point through a story. While it may not be a "life changing" book for everybody, it will hit home at some level for almost all of us, because in some way we are all change-averse. I would actually recommend this to people whose jobs are being dramatically affected by technology, or to the manager of these people.
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Summary: Simple is sometimes better
Review: Change can be a complex and confusing thing. This book simplifies and provides examples of how each person deals with change. Each person has been one of the four characters at one time or another and have reacted the same way when the "cheese was moved". I found the book to be a simple and very effective way to present a complex and confusing subject like change.
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Summary: Good, but not earthshattering
Review: This is a helpful little book, but I didn't think it was so fantastic that it should be one of the best selling books around. I've read similar books about how to get what you want out of life, and while this one was better than most it certainly wasn't groundbreaking. The book is told as a parable about 2 mice and 2 littlepeople who run around a maze looking for cheese. I love cheese, so I was hooked from the start, but of course the cheese is just a metaphor, and I prefer real cheese to metaphorical cheese. Anyway, the points the book raises are sound advice but rather obvious-- don't expect things to be handed to you, don't be afraid to take risks, don't let doubt frighten you into inaction. A useful and quick read, and one that must have hit a particular nerve in a lot of people to justify it's megaseller popularity. I either don't have that nerve or it's just gone numb.
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Summary: Just borrow someone's copy
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese" deals with one of the most important topics in today's business world, but I'm afraid it does more harm than good because of the lightweight nature. While the message that change happens and we must be flexible enough to respond is good, the book offers little guidance on actually doing it. This book is likely to fall into the hands of executives because it's a quick read, but will likely leave them thinking that just telling people they have to change is sufficient. As someone trained in change management, I can assure you that is very far from the truth. Getting people to change successfully is much more difficult than decreeing it be so. I would recommend this book as a light-hearted introduction to the world of change, but would definately follow it with another of more substance. I'd recommend "Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers" by Kreigel much more than "Who Moved My Cheese".
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Summary: Remember how much fun fairy tales were?
Review: How much of your early learning was through the mode of fairy tales? Whether it was morality from a Grimm story, spirituality from a bible "story" in Sunday School, or math concepts from something like "Flatland", the use of simple characters to teach complicated concepts dates to Confucious and beyond. This book has two things going for it: easily digested concepts coherently presented, and memorable "visuals" to lock in those concepts. Have fun some lunch hour. Pick this up, read it, put it down, read it again in a week. It's not the Book of All Knowledge, but it's a great brain stimulator!
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Summary: Analyzing our attitudes toward change
Review: Having read several of the reviews of this book, I am struck by a recurring theme. Many of the reviewers who disliked the book also expressed hostile viewpoints about change, either personal or in their workplace. This is not a how-to manual or a cookbook. If you are looking for a guide with Steps 1,2,3 to dealing with change...this is not it. What it is is a short story with a point to it (Aesop's Fable's comes to mind). Read it and think about how it applies to situations you find yourself in. Share it with your kid's and talk to them about trying to be Sniffers and Scratchers instead of Hemmers and Hawers. While on first approach this looks like a quick read, that is deceptive. In order to get something out of it, you;ll have to put some thought into it. Personally, I found it thought provoking and worthwhile.
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Summary: irritatingly, distractingly self-congratulatory
Review: The jacket cover, intro, beginning (even the title!) of this book not only go on endlessly about the book's amazing value to any reader but go so far as to suggest that the reader who doesn't care for the book isn't taking the time to examine his feelings, thoughts, etc. and is otherwise deficient. What a crock! There is no book ever written that deserves such lauding. The book isn't all bad and might offer some useful suggestions to a reader in dealing with change in life and work. It is written simply and is rather simple -- both in the lessons it teaches and in its approach. Indeed, though the book is very short, the story could have been told in half as many pages. The irritating self-congratulatory promotion -- to the point of criticizing those who don't get much from the book -- is entirely unnecessary and fills far too much of the print in this package. I don't like being told that I am lacking or stupid because I may not care for a book -- even before I have read the thing. Additionally, not only does all the jacket and intro info tell you that the story is a parable -- the story itself says so. Talk about no subtlety whatsoever! I would under no circumstances buy this book unless I had to purchase it for a team building or similar project at work.
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