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Summary: Needs to be read over and over
Review: I found this little book very penetrating. After taking about three hours to read it the first time I am ready to read it again. It has a lot of good lessons for real life.
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Summary: Summer Reading List for Teachers
Review: If students are handed a summer reading list, then teachers should make the commitment to read during the summer as well. As a teacher, I found this book particularly helpful because education is ALWAYS changing. This book helps readers to develop a new perspective on change. Four characters are brought to life in the book. Sniff and Scurry are mice, and Hem and Haw are little humans. The four live in a maze, where cheese is sought as that which represents happiness to them (money, job, relationships). As the little parable unfolds, it becomes clear to readers that change is inevitable, but that it can and should be welcomed as opportunity for improvement. Readers will be prompted to identify with one of the characters and ask, "Which one am I?" You, too, will be comparing yourself to each of the characters as you read their story. Somewhere in the maze is a representation of each of us.....I'm hoping that I can become more like Scurry, but I'm afraid I'll need some help from a fellow Sniff to seek out the changes that will affect my life. Enjoy reading this one!
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Summary: MOUSEY TENSIONS
Review: Because of our power of reasoning, imagining and supposing, we exist mentally in a world of opposites, converses, negatives. There may be some kind of absolute reality that is not like this. There may be other relative realities. But this tensional, or polar, reality is the one we humans inhabit. Anything that exists or can be imagined to exist is a pole. All feelings, ideas, thoughts, are poles; and each pole has counterpoles. This book by Johnson deals with both, attempting to establish an order among constant change, since change creates tension. Tension is the effect on the individual of conflicting feelings, ideas, desires and events. Sometimes the tug-of-war will be one-sided, in the sense that the individual will know quite clearly which "side" he wishes to win. In most political and social contexts this is so. A Jew-hater is not attracted by pro-semitism, a pacifist by armed intervention. There is still tension, since the individual knows that in society the opposing point of view is held. But in many other situations the conflict will be in the INDIVIDUAL. He will be pulled first one way, then the other. This can form a rhythmic and comfortable pattern, as in normal sexual relationships; it can become a torture on the rack; and in extreme cases the knotted ropes, the individual mind, may break under strain. Change produces tension, and the effect of a tension may be good or bad: a game or an anxiety. Tension, like every other mechanism in the universal process, is indifferent to the organisms it affects. It may ravish them, or it may destroy them. Learn to deal with change and tension: this "expensive" (but now greatly reduced by Amazon) pamphlet opens some doors...
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Summary: excellent reading
Review: This book can alter your perspective on change if you are open enough to receive the message! It is a book worth reading over and over, each time with the possibility of taking something new from it! Perfect for ALL ages and ALL walks of life, ALL professions. The storytelling format is brilliant, don't be surprised if you see people you know in the characters of Hem, Haw, Sniff, and Scurry. Hopefully YOU, yourself, will identify with one or more of the characters. After each read, I found myself thinking about it throughout the day, and finding events in the day that I could reference to the book. I was recommended this book by a friend and I liked it so much that I bought my own copy. I have loaned my copy out several times. "Who Moved My Cheese" is not your average motivational book, it is so much more! Don't sneeze at the title, don't turn your nose up at the simplicity of the writing...it all has meaning. There's no guarantee that any one book can change your life, but if you LET "Who Moved My Cheese" affect you, you may see so many things in your life in a NEW light!
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Summary: A lame and condescending look at the obvious
Review: This book is being passed around in order to brainwash employees not to think for themselves or to speak out against unfair or disruptive processes and procedures that management may ineptly impose upon those employees. It is trite and inappropriate and conveys the worst sentimentality of all regarding typical top-down patronizing behaviour. I assisted a company to become acquired and this was passed around as a panacea to people working with the company who had very real and pertinent questions that were not being answered. Perfect for hypocrites in human resources and others who earn their living by lying to people.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese?
Review: Change is something everyone at some point in time has to face. This book reminds us to accept change and has an innovative approach. Although it is simplistic in nature, it provides motivation in a creative way. I've read many books in my life, on many subjects, and this one takes the cake! Time is of utmost importance in any schedule. This book can be read within 1 hour or less. Bravo!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book That Will Help Us all!
Review: We all need cheese. Mice, humans, every living thing. But we think too much and make everything complicated. There is a reason that this book is only 94 pages. It reduces the mass convulated mess that we call life into it's simplist components. Most of us don't know how to deal with the cheese. And we have different styles of dealing with it. I've read this book twice. I'm going to read it again and again. I am one of the mice. In keeping the cheese. I don't let go with change. Johnson, like in "One Minute Manager", reduces the complex into the simplest equations so that we can really get to the core. This book has helped me greatly. I am very greatful. Buy the book and start living.
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Summary: Change happens, deal with it or starve
Review: If your life is or might be impacted by change read this book. Told in allegory form similar to Johnson's 1 Minute books some might be put off by the style; don't be! It's very easy to become accustomed to the status quo. However, as anyone who has observed the last 5 years should know, change happens. Further, there isn't anything we can do to prevent change. The first step to managing change is to accept that things will change -- usually totally unexpectedly. Who Moved My Cheese provides a a set of guidelines that can help you anticipate and even enjoy change. This is a book you can read in an evening and appreciate forever.
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Summary: A simplistic outlook on life.
Review: This is an amazing little book if you read it with an open mind. The book is about change and what happens to those of us who are not willing to change. I think a lot of people who rated this book so low did not see the hidden message. Give the book a chance. It only takes about an hour to read and maybe it might change your perspective on a few issues as well.
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Summary: Highly entertaining, highly educational
Review: This book leads by example. It provides and entertaining story that exhibits how gradual changes can lead to profound improvements. Parallels can be drawn between the characters and oneself, which is not found very often in books of this type. This book helps show how easily goals can be lost, and how easily they can be found once more if one can just learn not to be afraid. (*Interesting fact: This book intrigued both a 15-year-old and a 48-year-old at the same time, and actually got them talking civily over a serious subject for once.)
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