Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

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Summary: The best parable for dealing with change
Review: I have read lots of books on change management. Most of them are dry and boring. This book shows you various reactions to change and how one arrives at the right response. How mice deal with supplies of cheese provides an entertaining and educational context for this topic. The book is well worth the investment. I would recommend reading it in conjunction with Optimal Thinking--How To be Your Best Self. Optimal Thinking is the "mental software" to make the most of any situation and will help you deal with all the emotions and thoughts that stop you from making the most of change.

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Summary: Overrated and overly simpistic - much better options exist.
Review: This book is simply not worthy of the acclaim it has received. It probably sells well because it is such a short and easy read, but the information in the book is obvious, oversimplistic, and not useful if you are a manager looking for better performance from your team.

If you are looking for a book that will help you as a manager to get more out of your workers, try "First, Break all the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham. It will take you more time to read than this slim little booklet, but you will come away from the book with ideas you can implement in your business.

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Summary: It's all about life
Review: This book makes the reader reflect on their own personal life (and others) to spotlight life's quaranteed encounters and how to handle the circumstances. It is well written. A book I suggest for anyone to read at least once in their lifetime.

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Summary: Simplistic
Review: I read this book after checking out lots of reviews which rated it highly and I must say that I was disappointed. The central theme, in fact the only theme, of not getting complacent is drilled ad infinitum and told in an extremly childish way.
The discussion at the end is almost risible. It's like one of those local TV ads for the plumber where a woman asks a man very obviously dressed as a plumber "So can I rely on your services?" and he answers "Always!"!
This book reminded me of some very silly books I read when I was six or eight, parables trying to teach a moral in a very simplistic wasy as to appeal to someone with the mental maturity of a six year old. This book lacks depth.
On the whole, I definitely would not rate this book highly and would not recommend it to anyone I know.
In my opinion, this book simply does not serve the purpose of its being: inspiration. Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull is much better.
And, since you're reading this review, my advice to you is go look for something better for inspiration!

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Summary: Who moved it? Who really cares???
Review: I really did NOT like this book. I found the concepts contained therein to be demeaning from a management perspective. If you are looking for something profound then this is not the book for you. The contents are base at best. This is stuff that you probably should have figured out when you got your first job. I see all these 5 star reviews and I can't help but think that they must be written by people I would absolutely hate to work for: the butt kissers, the do nothing management types and the general cluseless. Let's face, if you need a parable about mice to help you understand and adapt to the corporate work environment then you will wind up in one of 2 camps: the ra-ra managers who eat this stuff up or you'll be the sucker who works for them. I giving this book 2 stars on the basis that the author managed to write more than 20 pages on what should only have been a paragraph at best.

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Summary: A Must Read
Review: Are you thinking about changing things in your personal or your professional life? If so this is a great motivational read. It can truly be read in one hour and when you finish you will be left with some decisions to make. I found this book quite interesting. When a book leaves you with lingering thoughts than you know that you have read a great book. This book belongs in everyone's library, so when you start to hem and haw you should reflect back on the message that this book sends and you revive your self. A great gift for any one going thru changes or thinking about changing things in their life

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Summary: Written to Make a Buck
Review: The most banal "business book" I have ever read. I finished it only because it is not a long book. And then for the first time ever, I through this piece of work in the garbage. Repetitious and very week on content. An example of how capitalism can get carried away...

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Summary: OK we've got to adapt to change, now what?
Review: I read "One-Minute Manager", which Spencer Johnson cowrote and was expecting a similarly illustrative tale with similar concrete strategies for management and interpersonal relations. This book has some positive ideas and it is a *very* easy read. You can read it an about an hour or two. The central message is that change is inevitable and that we must adapt to it to get our Cheese. Also, we are happiest when we pretend to be fearless and enjoy adapting to change. I am not sure, however, that these notions qualify as sufficiently profound insights to warrant the bestseller status of this book. Adapting to change and discovering the freedom of "what would I do if I weren't afraid" is an idea that many spiritual teachers have articulated. I believe the preface where it says that the story of Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw in this book originated from a motivational talk or favored parable. As a motivational speech this might be stronger than as a hardcover book worth $15-20.

I think this is a book that you read in a library or browse in a megabookstore rather than purchase online. Taken lightly without earthshattering expectations it is positive and helpful although there are probably better books on this subject.

3 stars

I can see why mixed reviews on this. If you've read a lot of philosopnhy or spiritual text you might find this really redundant. But if you haven't this may be a good first step and a catalyst for positive change.

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Summary: Interesting Concept - But Not Original
Review: I heard rave reviews from fellow entrepreneurs about this book when I first started by business. But, honestly, it didn't really do anything but explain why all those people I worked with long ago behaved the way they did. While hindsight may be the greatest foresight, I instead really found this to not be a good use of my time (what little I have).

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Summary: An Absolutely Fantastic Book
Review: This is a great book that I highly recommend. It encourages us all to look at life from a different (perspective) so we can make positive changes. It doesn't matter if you are 6 or 90, everyone will be able to relate to this story. This is a book that you will want to read over and over again.

I also recommend Seed's Sketchy Relationship Theories - A Guide to the Perils of Dating (How not to become a bar regular). A book which also encourages positive change.