Rating: Summary: Pretty darn good Review: I'm playing on writing the sequel...Why Do I Keep Moving My Damn Cheese.
Rating: Summary: Who Moved My Cheese? Review: A very useful story for those whoresist change.Dealing with change is very difficult for some people.In my personal life,poor communication,has been passed on without even knowing it.If we had all read this story,we could have saved our family a lot of stress.We could have shared what we feel our family's old cheese is and what the new cheese could be.EXCELENTE/MARAVILLOSO/PERFECTO
Rating: Summary: Good book for a traveling day... Review: Easy to read, funny, and it has a great message: Move with the Cheese (Move with the change). At the end it's the same that everyone is tired to hear: Change; but, in this book, we find a very simple example of how we can find out when to change and how to do it.
Rating: Summary: Spend in acquiring knowldege Review: I have read this book last week and take around 2 days to finish it. I have found it have a great insight. In this book, "CHEESE" is a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job, a relationship, spiritual peace or even an activity like jogging.Each of us has our own idea of what cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it make us happy. I also think in this information age, the Information, Technology and Communication which threaten my current position. This because future direction it more towards virtual or wireless transition which enable computer to perform all the task. For instance nowadays the revolution of the "E", i.e E-Commerce, E-Learning..etc takes almost all the conventional way of doing things. So, PREPARED FOR CHANGE.....!!!
Rating: Summary: Who Moved My Cheese Review: I thought this book was a very interesting way to see "change" from a diffrent perspective. I loved it. I now see and understand myself a little bit better than I ever have. I have been able to recognize my behavior and what I need to do to help myself understand and not "fight" change...Really good book!!!
Rating: Summary: Good Advice Review: The beauty of this book is that it you already know all of the principles it contains. They are so basic, however, that we never think about them. As the author convincingly conveys, our lives would be easier if we did keep these principles in mind. It's a very short book (I read it in about an hour) and it is well worth the read.
Rating: Summary: Too simple-minded to be useful Review: Like the "One Minute Manager", this is a very thin book with big fonts. Very easy to read, and I covered this in just one hour on the bus. The book enjoyed rave reviews, although I failed to understand why. It is a book that encourages change, because if you don't change, you will become extinct eventually. However, this is nothing new to all of us, and doesn't bring any new ideas to me. The book gives some simple and easy to understand 'principles', like: "Change happens", "The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you enjoy new cheese". All these paradigms encourage the reader to embrace change. However, it is easy to tell someone to change, but difficult to put that to action. Human nature is much too complicated to categorize into "Hem", "Haw", "Scurry" and "Sniff". Just because someone doesn't want to change doesn't mean he is afraid of change. Try telling someone who is feeding his family with his stable job to "change or be extinct", and see if he appreciates that. The advise is well-intentioned, but way to simplified. It is still a good book (and easy to read), but I think the mechanics of change is much more than telling someone to "let go of your fear". In fact, Yoda from Starwars already covered that. :)
Rating: Summary: Save Your Money & buy the bookmark Review: Of all the books I have read this one reminds me of baseball most. I heard it once said of baseball that it is three minutes of action packed into four hours. This book is seven simple thoughts packed into 94 insipid pages. The "Who Moved My Cheese" bookmark I was given with the book delivered the same concepts as the book. The bookmark, however, presented the concepts more succinctly and just as well. The problem is not the idea of embracing change. The idea that we should expect, anticipate, and embrace change is valuable. The problem is in the way the author chose to present it. While the story of the mice was cute, it would have been tolerable if it was presented as part of a text that dealt with the benefits of change and an analysis on why people are resistant to change. Instead, the story of the mice is couched in a story of some people at a class reunion. The people at the reunion superficially discuss the application of the ideas in the mouse story. Early in the book an individual disagrees with the "group think" and is ridiculed in the book, a handy way for the author to deal with dissent. How much better this book could have been if a more disciplined discussion of change was included. This book is such an oversimplification of the issue change that it is virtually worthless. Again, save your time and money; buy the bookmark. It is just as helpful as the book.
Rating: Summary: This literary classic smells of Gorgonzola Review: My boss forced me and others to read this marvel of literature to pave the way for a new 'exciting' (why are management techniques always veiled in excitement?) policy at a luxury menswear store. It reflects his intelligence and character. I am not exagerating when I claim that this book embarasses its author and insults the reader with the most banal statements since Cathy Lee. The reason the cheese was moved is because it started to smell! Who cut the Cheese is what I asked when I finished this masterpiece. If you're thinking of having your employees read it, it's guaranteed to make them hate you and ridicule you. The subject of change requires thoughtful insight not childish tripe.
Rating: Summary: The Only Constant in Life is Change. Review: The story is simple and clear and the lessons from this book can apply to anyone, anywhere, at anytime in their life. I was reading this book as I was making a job change and also ending a personal relationship. The lessons from this book saved a lot on frustrations on both counts. It is amazing to me the people I see in my life who refuse to change for whatever reason and then complain that everyone else is ruining their lives. For critics who dislike the book I really wonder if they are living by its everyday principles. This is one of the few book where there is something in it for everyone!
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