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Summary: Grab the cheese and run
Review: I found this book easy to read and easy to understand. I needed help kicking the HEM attitude and I found salvation with this simple book. If you find yourself lagging behind or if you are afraid to find true peace and happiness, then this is the book for you. Who Moved My Cheese is the first step into your revolving life.
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Summary: Who Moved My Syntax?
Review: Who Moved My Cheese is a parable about two mice and two tiny people living in a maze adapting to the changes and challenges of obtaining cheese. When I first started reading this book I was put off by the simplistic nature of the mice parable as well as the unsophisticated cheese illustrations. Initilly I felt as if my intelligence was being insulted. Surely I had outgrown storybook tales of life's lessons and my graduate education had prepared me for a more challenging read. But eventually I took a step back and asked myself why I was so threatened by a 94-page book. I came to realize we as a society and as individuals get so caught up in technological marvels and cutting edge business philosophy we forget the basics. Even while reading a book for self-improvement we put up walls. In Who Moved My Cheese the message is delivered in a way we have grown unaccustomed to, it is different and it is change. We are sometimes resistant to listening because we believe we know the answers. Who Moved My Cheese is talking but are we able to listen? It certainly does not take a high dollar education to read and understand this book; it does however take a humble approach and ego control. I recommend this book not just for the tutorial in change but the self-directed seminar in humility.
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Summary: No more cheese please!
Review: I was forced to read this book for a company I worked for that was thoroughly embracing the whole concept. I've never seen as much hype about something so common sense as I have this book. Anyone who has ever worked a day in his/her life would know as much as this book supposedly introduces us to.Don't get rooked on this moldy piece of cheese. Save your money and have a conversation with an older person who has lived through some strife.
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Summary: The cheese stinks!
Review: I can't believe this was a #1 bestseller. The book is only 94 pages long, which is probably more like 50 something, cause ever other page has a picture of a piece of cheese with some message on it. Plus the words are like 50 times bigger than a normal book - ...
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Summary: The cheese stinks!
Review: I can't believe this was a #1 bestseller. The book is only 94 pages long, which is probably more like 50 something, cause every other page has a picture of a piece of cheese with some message on it. Plus the words are like 50 times bigger than a normal book - I felt like I was reading a kindergarten book. It is the most basic concept in the world. In my opinion, this book is for people who REALLY have a problem adapting to change and are very negative. On to PowerNomics.
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Summary: Don't get cheesed! ...
Review: ... Touted as the great parable on leadership, this book has nothing to do with leadership at all. The story in a nutshell: two mice and two little people live in a maze. They find a big pile of cheese and eat it till it is gone. When it is gone, the mice take off to find more cheese as the little people Hem and Haw, panic and get angry/depressed at the injustice of the loss of their cheese. Cheese is your job. Be it your position or your company. When it is lost, you can either cry about it or move on to look for a new job. There is no leadership in this book, it is every man (or mouse) for themselves. Nobody worked at building a team to strategize ways of establishing self-sustaining modes of cheese production. Nobody stepped forward to lead the others toward success. Everyone was complacent with their cheese and when it was gone so were they. If your boss gives you this book it means he/she sees their employees as "little" (insignificant) people, and that they are preparing you for downsizing/layoff. ... You don't need this book, save your money to buy your friends or family a nice gift.
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Summary: This describes all of us, in one way or another: Great book!
Review: With a simple parable of a story, this book shows a way of evaluating our life choices. I think that the book applies to far more than employees forced to accept management decisions, as another reviewer here suggested as a reason for her dislike. All of us have the opportunity to change our life or circumstances in some way by changing our attitudes and actions. As a business owner I can see circumstances where I've reacted in each of the ways depicted in the book. For a book with only about 100 pages, the message has the potential to transform you life if you permit it (if you're not a "Hem" ;-) ) I found it to be a very stimulating read and well worth the money/time to read it. I intend to re-read it and apply the principles to my life. I'm even thinking of showing the cartoon version to my kids! Learning to adapt to change and even enjoy it can be a valuable life-lesson.
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Summary: The Cheese Is Turning Blue
Review: Every week I look at the top ten best sellers. Every week I see Who Moved My Cheese on the list. This book just won't go away. The book is slim, not too long. It tells a simple story using animals for characters. Three blind mice. It tells what happens when you do not keep your eye on the cheese. Someone moves it. Two of the mice continue to visit the place where the cheese used to be hoping the cheese will come back. The third mouse looks for cheese in other places. What a [poor]story... The point is that every day you have to go to work and prove to yourself and to others that you deserve the job you have. Never take your job for granted...
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Summary: Quick Read with Simple Message
Review: Having heard so much about the book I was compelled to donate 30 minutes of my time and read it when a co-worker offered his copy. The book describes the actions of two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two "little people", Hem and Haw that reside in a maze searching for cheese. The maze and cheese are representative of life and our goals respectively. The four have different personalties which become evident as they search for cheese throughout the maze. Each find cheese early in the story and are joyous of how life can be so good. Then, as in life, the cheese begins to decrease in amount and is eventually moved and the different personalties become evident. Sniff reacts quickly and begins to search for new cheese. Scurry, searches for cheese with Sniff and races ahead for new cheese when Sniff gets him close. Hem just cannot seem to understand why the cheese was moved, refuses to accept the fact that the cheese is gone and is unwilling to search for a new source. Haw also has the problem of accepting this change but after a prolonged contemplation eventually conquers his fears of looking for new cheese and moves back into the maze. Haw reflects upon the events and realizes that he should have recognized the diminishing cheese supply and reacted earlier. He also vows never to let it happen again. After finding a new source of cheese Haw continues to search for new cheese supplies. Hem never looks for any new cheese which suggests he perishes. Sniff and Scurry become complacent again enjoying new cheese not thinking of the possibility of diminishing supply and will once again have to react quickly when the supply is gone. The bottom line is recognize change early, prepare for bad times by continually searching out new sources when times are good, and be willing to change your course of action if your current actions are getting you the wrong results. There, now you don't even have to buy the book.
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Summary: Are you ready to read this book?
Review: This is a very quick read that has deep meaning. It's easy to buy into the metaphor of "Cheese" as "the goal of our pursuits" and easy to recognize people in our lives represented by the characters in the book. Reading it helped me put my thoughts about change into an expressible framework. It's less than 100 pages so even if you don't get anything out of it, you won't have spent much time reading it.
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