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Summary: Cheese or moldy cheetohs?
Review: I guess this book would have been useful to me when I was 19 and struggling with learning to adjust to being responsible for myself away from my parents. However, I believe that even then I would have been insulted at the simplistic language and imagery.Ironies abound, though. This book was handed out to our staff, I suppose, help us prepare for imminent changes in our daily processes. The new procedures had been a year in the making at that point...only technological bugs were left to resolve. Another year went by, with the implementation seemingly no closer. In light of drastically changed economics, including 20% staff reductions, a higher level of management decided the new process was technology for technology's sake and not cost-effective enough to pursue any further. I don't know if those in charge of the project were given a copy of the book when they were told.
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Summary: So hard to write an accurate review since..
Review: Since this book applies to a select many people, the ones having difficulty. Difficulty since these people do not know how to adapt to change. There are a great many people who are far less capable than the average reader, the average reader then writes bad reviews. That is the problem, these noncapable people don't read as much, but this book is slowy getting to those by word of mouth. It really is that simple. The book covers basic psychology that will work for persons who have been sheltered, unaware, uneducated, and for many persons who have shunned mainstream living, and these are usually the ones who have social adaptation problems. This book was not intended or written for balanced people who can adapt, it is clearly designed for the incapable. I am happy this book was published, I only hope it reaches the right people. Now think, why did you buy this book, the catchy title?, an expectation for something it is not? If you did that you only supported mainstream advertising. What are my credentials? I am a drug prescribing shrink. I see my share of the incapable everyday, this book is an excellent aid for those.
For those who are disappointed with it, or want more I strongly recommend reading SB 1 or God By Karl Mark Maddox
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Summary: An odd, but interesting little book...
Review: This book is very easy to read, with a moral even a mouse could 'get' a few pages in. Although it is very short and easy to read though, I had to keep putting it down as the author's style of writing was a bit odd to my taste. I'd recommend it though, as worthwhile reading in say, a Doctor's/Dentist's office, or while waiting for a flight.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese
Review: I had already read this book before I bought it. My Dad had checked it out at the library and brought it over for me to read. I am amazed at the negative reviews because there is so much valuable information in this little short book. The reason I bought it was because I knew I would be referring to it often. I am sure you could say the same thing in a 2 inch thick book, but why would you want to spend that much time reading to get the same point across. Sometimes I think people's attitudes are just "sour grapes" for whatever their agenda is.
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Summary: So Many Bad Reviews? - Here's a Good one -
Review: I find it quite amusing that so many of the office workers and corporate folk of america have simply trashed this book. They have trashed its simplicity, it's "cheesiness", it's author, and even gone as far to say that if you DO enjoy this book you are a simpleton - At least some of them even admitted that their boss forced them to read it - Which if I was forced to read it by a force in my life I already didn't like, I probably wouldn't have liked the book either. However, for me - It was it's simplicity that I appreciated. The book doesn't claim to solve all your problems, it merely points out how we choose to deal with them - and what some of the outcomes could possibly be - It is meant to be a simple and fast read and possibly light a spark that would help you embrace much needed change - Over analyzing and stating that the book is the evil corporate empires way of keeping mice (*workers*) in a maze is ridiculous - ... I found the book to be endearing, and although I live my life accepting change on a daily basis owning my own business, I found it helpful and reassuring that I'm actually out there making a difference and doing something rather than sitting around complaining that "the writings and teachings of others hasn't quite measured up to my standards and superior intellect" ... Whether you buy it, borrow it, or read it in the bookstore, do so and form your very own opinion on it - I for one liked it very much.
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Summary: Read it in an hour.........gain a lifetime lesson!
Review: "Cheese" (what we want in life - money, happiness, love, peace of mind) is a allegorical story about change and how people either adapt to it or resist it. The author cleverly tells a tale about two mice and two "little people" and how they each react when someone "moves their cheese." In this book, you will see that change is inevitable in our lives and we can either be like the mice and simply "search the maze to see where the cheese has been moved", or like the "little people" and lament and become depressed because "the cheese has been moved" instead of trying to find it. This is a great little book and after reading it you may view "change" in a different way.
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Summary: It's not easy being this cheesy!
Review: Obviously the author found his cheese. Only he didn't eat it, he packaged it up and sold it to the "littlepeople." The first thing I noticed when reading this book was that it has built-in defense mechanisms. People who disagree w/ this cheez are not "adapting," don't want to "learn," and are dubbed "Hems" just bcz they're not buying what he's selling. If you had any confidence in your message, why get so defensive only four pages in? I also agree .... that this book is a plus for management bcz it lets them believe that they are only moving cheese which is actually good for people and really not shafting anyone.
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Summary: My new daily affirmation!
Review: Who moved the cheese, indeed! The idea that one can change one's life in an hour by reading this charming little rodent-ridden parable is enchanting. It gives me a whole new lease on life and helped me make an important decision: cheese is quite edible. I can eat it here or there, in a car, in a boat, with a stranger on a moat. I simply cannot believe that my life has changed so drastically all from the one hour that is required from reading this book! An added bonus: the author's simplistic writing style did not require me to look up a single word, saving me even more time. Oh, if only all of life could be summed up so easily using metaphors of dairy products and household pests. Then, I dare say, we would all be eating quite a bit of cheese, wouldn't we!
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Summary: Misplaced in the Corporate Environment
Review: I don't think the corporate environment is the intended audience for the subtleties of this volume. To me, at least, the characters Sniff and Scurry represent the proletariet masses who, unencumbered with any cerebral baggage, resort to those most basic primordial instincts which direct them to bolt at any hint of an escape from repression; in this case the obvious opiate of the "security" suggested by "Cheese Station C", an obvious metaphor for the Eastern Bloc. This, I believe, is symbolic of the mass emigration from eastern European states into Germany and Austria witnessed just over a decade ago. Hem and Haw, on the other hand, clearly represent old guard communist leaders, who, unwilling to yield to the economic and social pressures of the west, perhaps in some way suggesting the defeat of their original Bolshevik principles, remain in a static position. Haw, ultimately stepping out into the maze, nicely encapsulates the courage, the apprehension witnessed in Poland during the Solidarity movement of the early '80s or even Gorbechev and his glasnost and perestroika programs; both attempts to bring about change to a system that was clearly failing.
Although to some Johnson's paper might suggest some parallels to a corporate climate, clearly it is a tool for Phd candidates focusing on some facet of political science.
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Summary: Good book ... well written
Review: This book is very simplistic in how we deal with change. I found its simplicity to be thought provoking and a great book to read. I recommend it.
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