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Summary: Great Read
Review: I just finished Who Moved My Cheese and found it a quick and cute read that packs a powerful wallop. A lot of the information I'd already figured out on my own, but it was nice to have an expert confirm my thoughts.Lorraine Enos
Author of The Portable Coach
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Summary: What the --- ? This book is retarded.
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Things in life change. You have to adapt and hold a positive attitude. Mutate, migrate, or die.
If you've just read the first paragraph of this review, you need not buy this book. If you are thinking about buying this book, I assume you are a manager of some type. Don't buy this book. You will be disappointed. If you do buy this book and make your people read it, you are either a very poor manager or an idiot, or both.
This book is so revolting, so poor, so uninspiring in any way possible, that I cannot give you an in-depth review, because even thinking about this book inspires fits of rage as I ponder how bad a leader one would have to be to actually think his or her employees could gain any type of inspiration from this book.
The one good thing, if I have to give something, is some of the axioms printed in bold, big type on a few of the pages.
-- JJ Timmins
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Summary: A Simple Message
Review: This little book presents a simple message about character and how to cope with change. The authors are very clever in presenting it in the form of an allegory. You cannot lose by reading "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard. And let me say, if after reading this book, you are hankering for more guidance on character and coping with change, I recommend that you go on to read another book cleverly presented as an allegory, "West Point: Character Leadership..." by Norman Thomas Remick. It's not only serious fun, but a veritable education --- all in one book.
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Summary: Cute
Review: This book was cute, but all it really says is that change is going to happen in life and that you should try to predict it and plan for it. Don't bury your head in the sand. Don't live in denial about it. And don't try to blame everyone else when the winds of change blow and you are unprepared. Stuff happens. Learn to deal with it and get on down life's highway.
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Summary: Food for Thought
Review: If you or your organization fears or resists change, then this short and simple book may just help lead you and your organization to learn to embrace change. George Bernard Shaw once observed, 'Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.' My instincts tell me this book was much closer to being genius than it was to just being overly simple common sense.
Johnson's clever and insightful story is about two mice ('Sniff,' who sniffs out change early, and 'Scurry,' who quickly scurries into action) and two 'little people' ('Hem,' who denies and resists change for fear of something worse, and 'Haw,' who adapts over time when he realizes change can lead to something better) who live in a maze and how they deal with the realities of unexpected changes in the location and quantity of their cheese supply. Each character represents an easy to recognize, common, stereotypical person with a common approach to changes in life. The cheese represents what a person wants in life (e.g. health, money, a good job, a strong relationship, peace of mind, etc.). This book was an original and light-hearted approach to the complex and anxiety-filled subject of changes in life. Subtle yet powerful messages were expertly woven into the story and led me to pause, reflect on, and identify with the characters and their actions. Johnson's style is not for everyone. If you have read any of his previous books, you will not want to miss this one. If you have never read any of Johnson's books, you may as well start with this one -- it may help change your life.
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Summary: Who cut the cheese???
Review: I have to hand it to the authors, they did take a rare approach to explaining their outlook on individual enterprise and independence. However, one can gain the same insight without the fable-esque dialogue from other books on self-reliance (Steven Covey, etc). I also applaud them for one other reason, and that is they feel that people in society ought to worry more about responsibilities rather than rights. We're in a "I sue you, you sue me" society as it is, and this book does show that incentive and self-reliance are important for happiness, and that we perhaps whine too much about common problems in life. The book presents a plausible idea in an implausible ambience. Perhaps for the authors life is as black-and-white, cut-and-dry as this book. Sometimes individuals are caught in the "where's my cheese?" mentality without even knowing it. Some people are HAPPY complaining that somebody "moved their cheese." You know the type of people that NEED something to complain about... Let's face it, we don't live in a utopian society, and some people actually choose to be irresponsible and lazy. This book doesn't address the psychological issues behind Hem and Haw, as I was hoping it would. It's somewhat one-sided. Also, what's the purpose of life? Accumulating cheese (riches)? Hardly... some of the happiest people in the world never find any cheese and are totally happy in their own idioms. I recommend "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles. I would stick to more traditional writings when it comes to self-reliance and private enterprise (if that's your bag). This book isn't all that great, and isn't as revolutionary as many people acclaim. If you don't believe me, look how many used copies are for sale.
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Summary: This book is a gem!
Review: I've never been inspired to write an Amazon review before, but I read this book over lunch (Yes, it's that short.) and it's truly one of the most useful and inspiring little books I've ever read. It's value is far out of proportion to the number of pages. Life lessons abound. I may read it again tonight!
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Summary: Stephen R. Covey, maybe he doesn't like this book.
Review: Stephen R. covey, in his book "The 7 habits of Highly effective people", says "Be proactive". If you adopted his sincere advice, it'll be disappointing to read this short book. This book mainly says 'adapt to change'. You can detect that it is not proactive but reactive response, which insects do very well. It is about personality ethic, not character ethic which should be learned first and settled in your mind as a deep principle. Some says that's too idealistic. But what do we mean by saying 'idealistic'? Is it really realistic to anticipate chage without the ability to see it? Without disciplined wisdom, knowledge, principle, is it possible to know how to react to change(Of course they never know how to CREATE change.)? If you try change without such character ethics, you'll GROW the Monster posibility of failure in a determined way in your business, school or so. Many will be against your idea of change because your idea has no concrete foundation. And the result is Visible. The MONSTER of failure will grow and grow, and if you don't grow character ethic, it will become bigger than you! My point is this.
"First read about character ethics and, read this one only when you are getting into the wide sea of laziness."
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Summary: A profound little book
Review: This book is an allegory set in a maze where two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two small people, Hem and Haw, go to find their cheese. One day the cheese is missing and that causes differing problems for the four creatures, depending on their personalities. This book takes some heavy-duty themes and puts them in a light context. In less than 100 pages the author brings up concepts such as values, entitlement, fear of failure, being proactive and the whole idea of leaving your comfort zone and venturing forth in new directions. There are many longer books that try to make a lot of points and do it in a much less effective way than this little gem.
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Summary: Pseudo-intellectual trash
Review: Do NOT waste your money and buy this piece of trash. The message is simple: change happens so DEAL. Dont make an attempt to resist change, dont make an attempt to set things right, go with the flow. Incredibly conservative [junk]. To see the right-wingness of the message, imagine the following scenario: Cheese = a job during say the 1950s and say youre colored and youre fired suddenly because of your race. According to this book, dont ask the question Who Fired me and why,dont question the disapprearance of the cheese, dont fight it. Dont sweat it man, find another job. Yes Mr Johnson, who is probably rollong around in piles of money made from this book, thanks for your profound messsage! And more than anything, god the language this book is written in would make you want to puke...
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