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Summary: I proposed the 5th mouse, Share
Review: Interestingly, I must be one of those few people who do not find the book "Who move my cheese" useful in a sense, but it's useful to prove a new point about the power of knowledge sharing though. My analysis goes like this: i. The book cast the world into the 4 types of people, using 4 different mice who exhibit different characteristics - Hem, Haw, Sniff and Scurry. ii. However, there are other types that would be even more effective than the model answer in the book. iii. I proposed the 5th mice named "Share". Share is a positive mice like Haw with one additional characteristic, ie. he like to share his knowledge. It's a fact that the mice stayed in one house. After every trip of locating the cheese, Share would create a simple "Knowledge Portal" in the house where he records the route to the cheese. Occansionally, when Share feels bore, he would add something interesting into his Portal, eg. a counter for the number of trips to the cheese location, draw some nice graphics to decorate the portal, etc.
With Share, the ending of the story in the book would be positively changed and dramatic. iv. We could come up with many different mice with special capability and that would change the book further, positively and entirely. Constructively, I must admit that without the book, I wouldn't be able to crystalise my mouse, Share. Thus, even though I don't find the book useful in that sense, I appreciate the 5th perspective and beyond gained as a result of the author writing this book, which might have been one of his objective.
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Summary: This cheese is off!
Review: It is a sad state of affairs when such a book rides high at the top of the best selling charts and is being paraded as an essential management text. Classes and programs have been spawned by it, it is almost de rigeur for companies to recommend to their district and store managers and it is marketed with such messianic glee that one almost expect it's words to be written in stone. Not that there is anything wrong with the central message of this book. Change and flexibility are the watchwords and to that extent this book should be applauded. Similarly, if this book were to be aimed at a target audience of line supervisors only then it might be appropriate. Let me not be churlish. I am happy that the authors have found commercial success with their product. Looking at the bigger picture however, there are serious issues involved. Is management being so dumbed down that in order to get a basic message across we, as a society, can only get an important message across with the aid of a lightweight parable about cheese and mice, replete with pictures and an explanatory homily at the end? The implications for the economic success of our country could not be clearer. For all of the tomes on management published each year management quality and productivity must be falling. Change is part and parcel of the capitalist sytem. It is inherent even pervasive in everything in the private sector. As such it is part of the process of management anyway to manage change. Even more so change has been a significantly larger part of the economic landscape in the last twenty years or so through corporate downsizing, outsourcing and much more yet the message has apparently not got through. Management, as life, is much more complicated than this book would make it seem. Use this book to read to your children at bedtime. Urge managers to look for more substantial management texts. We need them to.
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Summary: An entertaining and simple way to look at change.
Review: This is a great story and philosophy about change. The story is simple and short. It can be understood by even children I would think. I listened to the audio CD version and it made a nice quick little story on my way to work. On that edition there was also discussion about how the story was interpreted and used by several people in different occupations and situations.
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Summary: A mild method of control
Review: "Cheese" has some great insights and is a good read for employees and those with low attention spans because of its brevity. .... My company gave it to us right before they did a massive lay off of our newer workers, that left us as managers down in the mouth as we didn't see the logic or necessity in it. American companies like the one I work for often pass the buck of downsizing on change as part of life. It's a bit scary but a fact of life. But that's what it's like when you work for the man!
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese?
Review: Who Moved My Cheese? is about two little people named Hem and Haw. Also, two mices named Sniff and Scurry. They all have different characters. Such as Hem, he is very pesimistic and Haw is an optimist and knows he could achieve all his dreams. In the other hand Sniff is sniffing to find his goal and Scurry, scurries to achieve his destinies. They are all in a maze to find thier goal and thier goal is to find Cheese. Cheese is a metaphor, meaning it could be anything you want in life. When the little people found Cheese they were really happy and when the cheese was moved Hem was mad and decided to find it, but Haw decided that, that is how life is and he has to move on and look for new cheese. In the end of the story Hem did'nt find any cheese because of his pesimistic mind, and Haw & the mices found cheese.
My favorite part of this book are when Haw wrote on walls saying to follow your dreams. It ispires you to follow your dreams always and it makes you think that your cheese will be there, just as long you try your best!
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Summary: Instructive, but with one big flaw...
Review: ... which is that there are many different KINDS of cheese and that the choices in life often involve tradeoffs. My work life offers me Camembert, Cheddar, and Mozzarella, but not Brie - I know that, miss it, but can't justify changing it on those grounds. Seldom does "all" the cheese disappear - it's more a matter of SOME of it going away. Past that, it's often good advice to change - and to ensure that what you're doing is getting you "cheese" of some kind or another.
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Summary: An OK story. Could have been better.
Review: I got my copy from an Austrian colleague who thought it was a great reading. While the story is interesting, easy to read and deals with an important issue, the way it is presented is overly simplistic. The whole book revolves around the simple concept of having to deal with change, but gives few or no practical examples of companies that have accomplished that and companies that havent, how one should achieve that and what to avoid, and other important recommendations that needed to be there. A much better reading would be Jim Collins' "Good To Great: Why some companies make the leap and others dont." Collins deals with the issue of change in a chapter called 'confronting the brutal facts', and presents the matter in a much more practical and concise matters with many examples from the real world. The verdict: look somewhere else.
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Summary: Esay-to-read but not as enlightening as I thought
Review: The book tells about that changes are inevitable. Only when we are to accept that and prepare outselves for the changes ahead that we are likely to survive. As a story book, it is good to read it to the kids. However, other then the author's preaching for the inevitability of changes, there is nothing more. It leave us a lot of questions: How we are going to deal with the changes? Does the author suggest that we have to go with our instinct in searching for the "new cheese"? Looking forward is good but in which direction? How to evaluate the "right" direction?... In the rapid changing world (likely to be speeded up by the increasing use of IT/ technologies and the force of globalization), having a ready mind is not enough.
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Summary: Short little parable about change
Review: I find it interesting that this book gets such passionate reviews of either love or hate. It is a short little book that only takes a half an hour to read. It has a simple message that change is not something to be feared but can be embraced. Hopefully most of realize this on some level already. The message is told by a little story about mice in a maze. It does not deal with a lot of details; how can tell you tell when change is really for the better? what do if change is really for the worse? how do you get others to embrace change around you? etc. But it does not require a big investment to read and can help reaffirm a good thought.
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Summary: A small but true strory
Review: This book is a real story, people doesn't want to change and in this changing world we must change, or at least try to change.
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