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Summary: So much hype on this . . . good and bad
Review: After hearing how awful and how wonderful this book is I decided to read it for myself. It has something to say (at a very basic level) but I can understand why anyone wanting more substance than a parable can provide would be less than impressed. But what do you expect from a few thin pages? In fact the book is blown up to appear to have more content than it actually does. For more substance, I'd suggest "Filling the Glass" or "Shakelton's Way" or even Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
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Summary: More Corporate Mind Control Propaganda
Review: This is a best seller? I suppose it gained that status because large corporations put in orders for thousands of copies and gave them to their employees, or required that employees buy the book. Sniff and Scurry represent the mindless blue-collar laborers who, when their jobs are eliminated and sent to a third-world country where labor is cheap, have no choice but to sniff out new employment if they can, no questions asked. Hem and Haw represent the more "mindful" middle management corps who are supposed to swallow anything the all-powerful cheese movers tell them. I was insulted by this book and I hope that workers see through its propaganda. Not all change is needful and good, especially when it is imposed upon us for the self-serving purposes of mindless and heartless corporations. Wake up! And refuse to eat this moldy cheese.
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Summary: Life isn't a piece of cheese.
Review: This book is an overly simplistic way to look at changes in ones's life. Some changes occur suddenly without warning! I found the book to be discouraging. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that was involved in unwanted changes in their lives.
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Summary: Shows the pitfalls of complacency and the liberating...
Review: effects of embracing the concepts of change, development and curiosity. This is particularly true insofar as career and financial well being are concerned.Although it seems to me that the lessons being taught within should be readily apparent to any student of history and even more currently anyone who has lived through the downsizing revolution and the transition from the industrial age to the age of service and technology. The sad thing is that the truths expressed within are elementary and adults shouldn't need to have a childrens story approach with regard to these teachings. If people were actually paying attention to the world they live in a book like this wouldn't even sell a single copy. Wake up!
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Summary: Basic Common Sense- But Good
Review: A quick read of course, in the style of "The One-Minute Manager", but with some good ideas. So much of what is taught today lacks basic common sense, but this book has plenty. You may not walk away saying, "I didn't know that!", but rather "This makes me think about change in a different way." An enjoyable read, that might even get good conversations going!
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Summary: A cute lesson about handling change.
Review: Johnson uses this cute story to show how differently individuals can deal with change. There are four characters (two mice and two little people) who must hunt a maze to find their cheese. Once they locate the cheese, Johnson shows how differently individuals "settle" into the routine of life. Once the cheese is gone, he shows again how differently we react when forced to change something we did not wish to change. After going through many organizational changes at work in recent years, I have seen how each characterization described in this book really does exist in the work environment. I have also seen how it applies to changes in personal life, spiritual life, etc. This book can be applied to any aspect of "change" that needs to be faced in anyone's life. The moral of the story, don't sit around moping, MOVE ahead! Move ON!
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Summary: Great Book - Metaphor for Change worth hearing again...
Review: I loved this book. While many people fault this book for being too simple, I think that it rings true. And as a metaphor - it really allows you to re-read it and apply it to different situations, and see your life, and your environment, in a new light. Also, it is a very fun book to read. I don't think something has to be new or philosophically profound, to be valuable and useful. Who Moved My Cheese was valuable and useful for me. I have shared it with at least 4 or 5 other people and they all enjoyed it and found that it was great! I think this is a case of the glass being half full or half empty. For me the glass is half full. But all it takes is a few sips from this simple fable to be refreshed. I highly recommend it to people in business, although it really applies to everyone and the nature of change. It helps re-affirm the idea that you need to be pro-active, and need to be willing to change as your environment changes. I think this is one of those lessons that your head may know, but it is alway useful to re-learn it on a deeper level. Other books about personal growth and transformation that I recommend are: "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" by Ariel and Shya Kane "The Four Agreements" by Ruiz "The Power of Now" by Tolle
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Summary: Living with Corporate Change
Review: For those of us who work for companies who pride themselves on being on the cutting edge, you know there are always going to be 3, 4, sometimes even 6 reorgs a year. This book is for us. Reorgs can be unsettling at best, at worst they will bring out the worst in us. This book helps you put a name to the type of person you are when it comes to change. That, in turn, helps you to face the change and deal with it in a more acceptable fashion. It is a short book and can/should be read in a single sitting. It is not like those business books where the author is full of himself and thinks only he can see the truth. This book is talking about universals - how we react to changes and how we can deal with not being in control of those changes (you know management never asks the folks in the trenches what they think of the changes they've come up with).
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Summary: corporate dogma for childish minds
Review: How can this book be a best seller? It is an embarassing statement lack of confidence by upper management to the competency or common sense of the employee. If this is the degree to which they are stooping, maybe a move to improve the human resource dept. would be money better spent.... do they really think thier employees operate on this simplistic level? Very insulting I would think. Perhaps the people who perpetuate this in corporate environments will be embarassed when the "buzz" wears off, you know, like "paradym shift", "lean and mean", and other buzz words that cost irrevocable damage to some companies. As with all fads, this too will become an embarrasing memory.
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Summary: I can see why CEOs love this
Review: The subtle, underlying message of this book is "Don't waste time fighting against bad changes: accept that bad stuff will happen to you for no good reason and just keep moving, like an animal." The animal analogy is a valid one: animals do not question or complain about changes that hurt them, they just try to survive. Any CEO would love a company full of mice--and this book is a great step along that road. Furthermore, the book's core analogy makes the insulting assumption that employees shouldn't bother with reason or analysis: pure survival instinct is all the CEO wants to see. Real humans in a maze, confronted with vanishing or moving cheese, wouldn't just whine; they'd analyze their situation and find a creative solution, instead of just going back to foraging. Maybe the cheese-deposit mechanism is stuck; maybe the cheese is shifting in a pattern that can be understood; maybe there's a way out of the freakin' maze! "Just accept it and keep moving" is not only a simpleminded philosophy, it's often dead wrong. Change is not always bad, but it should always be questioned, and opposed if it's harmful. Be a man, not a mouse.
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