Rating: Summary: The best place to start for a perspective on change Review: This book will not change your life.But it is the first step to get you moving from a static view to a perspective that is ready for change. To simple for you? Take the next step - read Value Migration by Adrian Slywotzky, a book that is built around the same core concept - change - but takes an in depth look from at how patterns of change value has resulted in value changing hands in several industries. But you need to walk before you run. Pick this book up first and speed through it in half an hour. See if it gets your mind rolling.
Rating: Summary: This book is not worth a piece of cheese Review: Please do not waste your time and money on this book. It it outrageous that such a simple idea has received so much hype. Anyone with an ounce of common sense will get nothing new from this book. If my boss had given me this book to read I would have been so insulted that I would have immediately gone in search of new cheese!
Rating: Summary: You Create Your Own Results Review: This parable points out that accepting what is can cause us to settle for things that are not very good for us, such as easy access to our needs for the moment. Like the careful person who prepares for a rainy day, if we think through what must be done we can become more capable, more satisfied, and contribute more. Many people are working very hard to achieve things that are not very important to them, like money and greater size, while things that are really important, like family and self-satisfaction, receive little attention. Habits can be harmful, and I am reminded of "The 2,000 Percent Solution" which helps people create a heathier set of habits in their organizational life. You should read both to get the most out of your life
Rating: Summary: lifechanging possibilities Review: It took me less than one hour to read Who Moved My Cheese? When I finished, I knew something about me had changed. If I had the money, I'd buy the book for every person I know. I passed it along to my daughter, as I see her, as an adult, dealing with change as inaffectively as I did at her age. I wish someone had passed it along to me years ago! Thanks Spencer Johnston for a great book!
Rating: Summary: Book so good, Review: This is the most awesome book i have ever read and trust me ihave gone thru some major number of books in the last 2-3 years. Ijust can't help but sell my frineds on this books, ans as it happens most of the times they come back the next to thank me for talking about the book so enthusiactically. But as life would have it there are some people who would come back and have an tell me that this is what they had already knew and it was a waste of their time. You know what this is such an eye opener that the mesage is so obvious that even a blind man read this book and get something out of this book. But there are some intellectual ( in their own minds) who think that they know everything about everything.
Rating: Summary: The mice may abandon the ship! Review: I decided not to share this book with co-workers for fear they might take their cheese to a different employer!
Rating: Summary: Most outstanding book I've read this year! Review: This brief (took less than an hour to read) hit the spot. It makes you think about all of the areas of your life where you resist change and makes you question why. The most important question in the book is - "What would I do if I weren't afraid". Very powerful - What would you do?
Rating: Summary: The lamest of the lame Review: Spencer has one metaphor here, and he squeezes it dry, to no good end. It's shocking enough that he wasn't embarrassed to submit it to his publisher, but even more shocking that the publisher didn't notice that the emperor was naked. Maybe the fact that he was dancing all the way to the bank blurred their vision! (Sorry for milking my own metaphor.) (...) This book is a bad magazine article stretched beyond the max.
Rating: Summary: My worst lunch break ever Review: I just read 'Who moved my cheese' over my lunch break by request of my HOD. I have never read anything that insulted my intelligence more than this. I can't believe that people in managerial positions would get anything out of this. How anyone could even get to a position of any authority, without already understanding the ideas put across in this book is beyond me. My advice to anyone thinking of buying this book, is to go and buy a pound of good sharp cheddar instead.
Rating: Summary: 30 minutes to read, 30 minutes to change your thinking! Review: I'm not one for easy, pop psychology. This isn't easy, and it's not psycho babble. This seemingly simplistic allegory is a actually a picture of the complexities of modern life, and it what it takes to move beyond fear into into exhilieration; out of the mundane, and into joy!
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