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Summary: Funny if you read the original.
Review: If you read _Who Moved my Cheese?_, you will definitely appreciate the wit and humor behind this book. Snitch and Scamper are two rats that you have to watch out for. Hi and Ho are the little people that are trying to survive in this cutthroat maze we call the business world. The four friends' story that bookend the Maze Story is much more real to life than the story in the original book. If I were to pick which of the characters I am, I would have to be the little person (I got Hi and Ho mixed up) that tried to make it on his own by searching the maze and writing the phrases on the wall. A great laugh!
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Summary: Funny if you read the original.
Review: If you read _Who Moved my Cheese?_, you will definitely appreciate the wit and humor behind this book. Snitch and Scamper are two rats that you have to watch out for. Hi and Ho are the little people that are trying to survive in this cutthroat maze we call the business world. The four friends' story that bookend the Maze Story is much more real to life than the story in the original book. If I were to pick which of the characters I am, I would have to be the little person (I got Hi and Ho mixed up) that tried to make it on his own by searching the maze and writing the phrases on the wall. A great laugh!
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Summary: An Easy Shot
Review: Someone had to do it. The legions of working people who have to put up with a boss or a HR manager who takes to heart the asinine and prosaic teachings of Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager) and his ilk needed someone to write a book like this to verify that they have not gone mad and that some management books really have gotten dumbed-down to the point that "Who Moved My Cheese" can become a serious bestseller. This book is amusing, and it takes all of fifteen minutes to read, but it really deserves to be purchased; and then anonymously mailed to every clueless boss who thinks grown people should be treated like children.
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Summary: Three Cheers for this "Cheese!"
Review: Stilton Jarlsberg has taken all of the most inane elements of Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese?" and wrapped them up into one big hilarious "cheese ball." This little book packs its pages with wickedly on-target spoofs of all the fads currently afflicting corporate America: simplistic mottos, incompetent bosses, and "change for change's sake." Highly recommended!
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Summary: Rye humour meets stilton at your neighborhood deli !!
Review: Thank heaven for humour and humourists!!-Here I was, literally forced to read "Who moved my cheese" (the serious one!)which was given to me as an Xmas gift. While all the points made good common sense(stating the entirely obvious at a high price) I didn't think mice were entirely appropriate to illustrate the "game of life " or "law of the jungle". When Stilton Jarlsberg came along with the "RATS", that all changed. This parody tells it like it is, with a good many twisted jokes tossed in for good measure. Essentially, this book takes the "goody-two shoes" terms of the Spencer Johnson M.D. book and applies them to real life where things are as as they actually exist, not as you wish them to be. This book is essential to succeed in modern day management and to hone your street survival skills in our modern and turbulent world.
Enjoy!! Reread!! Absorb!! If worst comes to worst, you can always burn it!!
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Summary: Rye humour meets stilton at your neighborhood deli !!
Review: Thank heaven for humour and humourists!!-Here I was, literally forced to read "Who moved my cheese" (the serious one!)which was given to me as an Xmas gift. While all the points made good common sense(stating the entirely obvious at a high price) I didn't think mice were entirely appropriate to illustrate the "game of life " or "law of the jungle". When Stilton Jarlsberg came along with the "RATS", that all changed. This parody tells it like it is, with a good many twisted jokes tossed in for good measure. Essentially, this book takes the "goody-two shoes" terms of the Spencer Johnson M.D. book and applies them to real life where things are as as they actually exist, not as you wish them to be. This book is essential to succeed in modern day management and to hone your street survival skills in our modern and turbulent world.
Enjoy!! Reread!! Absorb!! If worst comes to worst, you can always burn it!!
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Summary: Tasty as a slice of Swiss and just as thin
Review: This book is as almost as helpful as the one it's poking fun at. I wasn't a big fan of "Who Moved the Cheese" and I don't know why it's so popular, but this parody contains some outstanding practical advice, most of it centering around why its best to avoid people who eat lots of dairy products and then have adverse gastrointestinal reactions to it. I made the mistake of reading this book in a crowded bookstore and a couple of times I broke out in serious giggles, which got me some strange looks from the other patrons who probably thought I was reading the serious book and not the parody. But I ignored them and finished the whole book in about 15 minutes. And that's a big problem with this thin little tome-- you can easily knock it off during a lunch break. Why anyone would want to buy it is a bit of a mystery. Then again, why anyone would spend [their money] on "Who Moved My Cheese" is a mystery as well.
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Summary: Behold, the Odor of Cheese!
Review: This is a funny little book with punny little sayings scattered throughout, drawn on the wall of the maze by the misfunctional little people , with "soft charcoal," that we can all figure is something else. It is a great parody of the original "Who Moved My Cheese" and is funny, even if you never read the original, sainted tome of anti-whiners. Just the title will get a snicker if you accidentally bring to a motivational meeting.
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Summary: Behold, the Odor of Cheese!
Review: This is a funny little book with punny little sayings scattered throughout, drawn on the wall of the maze by the misfunctional little people , with "soft charcoal," that we can all figure is something else. It is a great parody of the original "Who Moved My Cheese" and is funny, even if you never read the original, sainted tome of anti-whiners. Just the title will get a snicker if you accidentally bring to a motivational meeting.
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Summary: You think Deepak is deep? Hold on to your hats.
Review: Whoa! Don't be fooled by the "parody" label: this is a profound and expertly crafted book. The casual reader should not overlook the subtle hidden messages of this volume. I found that the themes and symbols of the work did not become clear until I had re-read the book several times, and purchased additional copies as gifts for my friends and acquaintances. The anagrams, palindromes, and crytograms scattered willy-milly throughout the text are worth the price of admission. Some of the wordplay is so obscure that James Joyce or Lewis Carroll would weep (with pleasure!). A truly great mind and potent personality is tantalizing us behind the nom de brilliance, "Stilton Jarlsberg." Expect great things from this volume...the author is truly a Master of Life.
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