Rating: Summary: Simple and Insightful Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" deals primarily with change. Some people perceive that this is only for business managers but after reading it, I understand that "Who Moved My Cheese?" is useful to just about everyone. If you are undergoing change in your life, then this is the book for you. It can be change in your personal life, career or relationships. The advice from this book is that you must understand that change is inevitable, it will come no matter what and the best thing you can do is to anticipate change so that we can adapt to it quickly. This book is short, concise and very easy to read. The author did not use jargons and I think this is good as all readers will be able to understand and benefit from the book. Most people can easily relate to some of the situations that were described. I recommend this book because I think it is helpful for people to understand more about change and how they can deal with it. Change is not necessary a bad thing. It is just a matter of how you approach it.
Rating: Summary: doesn't move cheese for me Review: It's a good little story, but it's too black and white. No grey area in the land of the mice/cheese maze. I think there are better books to read out there on how to handle life. Keep this for a quick read if you need to find something to read (ie: bathroom), but don't read this and expect your whole view on life to change. The drawings of Hee and Haw are cute though.
Rating: Summary: Cheesy Review: To help calm employee responses to layoffs, the authors present a parable about mice and men asserting that independent reflection betokens bad character. Compare this with the following credo: "You see the ox, comrades, admire him! He eats where we command him to eat. If we let him graze on this field, he eats. If we take him to another field where there is not enough grass, he grazes all the same. He cannot move about, he is supervised. When we tell him to pull the plough, he pulls it." Pin Yathay, in his memoire about the starvation of his family in Khmer Rouge camps ("Stay Alive, My Son", available on Amazon.com), quotes this as "an often-heard Khmer Rouge parable." Layoffs are inevitable and they produce anxiety, but the authors' response in "Who Moved My Cheese?" raises more problems than it settles. The book's main virtue lies in having sparked several parodies that contain some good laughs.
Rating: Summary: I learn to my a guide post of life. I hope to feel you it. Review: When i read last vacation this book. It is very short story. But this book say to our 'really our life style'. It is we will how to live in society, returned thinking that now one's life style and we will make one's life. This book enter the stage two mouses. They lived different style. One mouse was chose stay one's country. The place is empty cheese a storehouse. The mouse want a monotonous life. But environment continuously changing to our in society. Conclusion the mouse was died. Other mouse is leave empty cheese a storehouse. The mouse wse choose new place where many cheese a storehouse. That choice is wise. The mouse was live. We saw different choice to two mouses. I think it is explain to how adapt one's to our society. Second mouse is adapt to our environment. We society is rapiddly changing to many thing. So we try to adapt one's to in our society. I think we learning to Everything are way to well live our life. Once again to say we think how live one's a guide post of life. Thank you read to my write. Have a good day~!! Please many review wrtie~!!!!
Rating: Summary: I'll move my own cheese, thank you very much Review: Break out of the maze, and stop worrying about the cheese. Never have I come closer to the mind crushing monotony and impersonality of corporate America than when I read this book. You are all mice, and there is some mad scientist who can change you life and routine at whim. Your key to survival is to learn acceptance and/or numbness to this reality. Resistance is futile. For the best cheese moving book in America, read some Ralph Waldo Emerson. Start with Self Reliance and go from there.
Rating: Summary: So-so Review: The message is good, but it's put forth a little too childlike. Had it been written in a style more suited for adult reading skills, I think it'd be more beneficial to people. I can see why so many have been turned off by this. But remember the bottom line here. Change happens, learn to deal with it. Also recommended - NO ONE'S EVEN BLEEDING
Rating: Summary: As relevant as it is simple Review: Who moved my cheese? Well, I don't know, but this book will help you find it. It invokes a simple enough concept that you would think everyone would already have instituted it in their professional and personal lives. Amazingly, this is undoubtedly not the case. Cheese is a metaphor, first of all, for everything in life that you want or need. This simple, yet profound, allegory makes you think about your own situation and if you are, in fact, moving with the cheese, inspecting the cheese daily, and savoring the cheese that you do have while concurrently vigilantly inspecting for changes and new cheese. The most germane and significant message to me personally is that the intangible fear of change is always much greater than the actual change itself. One must, as Haw does in the story, discover that change will oftentimes lead to better cheese and is not to be feared. The audio version is especially well told. It's like listening to a children's story - simple and fun yet relevant and provocative at the same time - a seemingly unimaginable combination. Highly recommended for all.
Rating: Summary: Could contribute to change your life Review: . Tired? Depressed? Everything [is bad]? Welcome to the club! Now just... read this book. Short, refreshing and makes you think: Which is the best way to LIVE? I'm living, as I would like? If not, how can I change this? Some reviewers said, that it is insult to their intelligence. Really? How about Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince? Or Richard Bach's Seagull? Or may other "child tales" which turn to be really adult? Remember: the life is not just learning, performance, fight etc. The art has it's own meaning and it is indispensable for life. Just relax and maybe you can think about your life "out of box"... or labyrinth. .
Rating: Summary: Buy the Parody instead! Review: This is the [weakest] book ever written! If your boss ever hands out this book, brush up your resume, because as Mason Brown says in his parody, "Who Cut the Cheese?" this book is used like a parting gift, a businessman's turtlewax. The key idea of blithely accepting change might just as well be summed up as "resistance is futile!" ...
Rating: Summary: Change happens? No kidding. Review: It amazes me how stating the obvious can lead to a hugely successful book. Hey, life is full of changes --- well, how about that? It isn't like this is a huge revelation to most people. We have all had our highs and lows; such is the human condition. What makes me regard this book as a pile of garbage is the idea that managers can somehow lull their hapless employees into some sort of reflective passivity just before dropping some bomb on them. I know that my first reaction, when my manager plopped this pile on my desk, was one of cynicism more than anything else. Trying to soften the blow, eh? If you are a manager looking to frighten or irritate employees, then this is the book for you. Also, the idea that "change" is something to be accepted as inevitable and part of the ebb and flow of life offends me. Should the Nazis have handed this book out at Auschwitz to the inmates as they entered the camp? "Arbeit Macht Frei" equals "Who Moved My Cheese" as far as I am concerned. Change may be inevitable, but it doesn't mean that sometimes you shouldn't fight like hell to keep change in its place.
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