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Review: Change is inevitable. You can choose to either embrace it and thrive, or resist it and suffer the consequences.There -- I just saved you ... and a half hour you would have wasted in reading this unbelievably simple-minded book that is unaccountably receiving rave reviews from many reviewers.
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Summary: An Attitude Wake-up Call
Review: This little book was highly recommended to me by a colleague. I work in the Healthcare Industry where change is becoming a way of life. I found its lesson to be incredible pertinent. I have shared this book with over 30 managers and physicians. While the story is simplistic, it is widely applicable. ( ok, maybe a little too cute) It can be easily read in a single sitting. Share it with your staff--it will get their attention.
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Summary: Inspitational and thought-provoking
Review: This book couldn't have come at a better time for me. I was unemployed for a month and despairing over whether I would find a job or not. This book woke me up and inspired me to take a chance on a career that I would not have otherwise attempted. Humorous and easy to read (read it in one sitting), but full of mind-awakening quotes. I have loaned this book out to many others, who felt the same way. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Book Review of "Who Moved My Cheese"?
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is very small but highly absorbing book, written in an amazingly simple way to deliver a simple, yet profound underlying message about Changes-How to accept them, both in personal life and organisational context. The author is well known medicine man, Dr Spenser Johnson, very famous for his One minute manager series of books. The book deals with a story inside a story. A group of former classmates chat about their life after high school days in a get-together meeting. One of them relates the story of Who Moved My Cheese? to the others to illustrate how this had helped him cope up in his life and at work with unwelcome changes. There are four small creatures, living and searching for cheese, their staple diet, in side a maze. Sniff and Scurry are two mice and the other two are Lilliputians. Mice don¡¦t worry themselves with thinking, analysing and worrying. They only react immediately. So, when, the reserve of cheese found out by them in the maze, disappeared they were not surprised. They didn¡¦t reflect on what they lost. They simply started searching for new store of Cheese in the maze. Their counterpart, Hem and Haw, on the contrast, always conscious of the fact that they are human and therefore more superior to the mice and hence ought to reflect and analyses every thing that comes on their way. The little people, were aghast, not seeing their well accustomed cheese, which they had started to think as their own. Hem got very angry, Haw was bewildered. As time passed, Hem got bitter and bitter. While Hem refused to do anything that might have solved the problem. He continued to come to same place, where cheese was kept, always hoping that cheese would be there. Haw, however, got wiser after much starving, that something need to be done. He laughed at himself that he wasted much precious time and set to start seeking for new cheese. He tried to reason with his friend Hem, to accompany him in his quest, but of no avail. When Haw decided to take control over his destiny by accepting the challenge, the very thought was exciting and joyful to him. He began to have fun. He could envisage new cheese. He tries again to get Hem to join him, but Hem has decided that he wouldn¡¦t like new cheese even if he found it. Eventually, the mice and Haw could locate wonderful cheese. Dr Spenser didn¡¦t tell about Hem; he may well have starved. While Haw was in his quest, he learned new things and developed a new philosophy that he wrote up in the wall of the maze: 1. Change will happen, Anticipate it. 2. Don't hang on to the (old) illusions. 3. Don't hang onto fear. Deal with rational fear and discard irrational one. 4.Watch out for little changes in situations, they could be signal for big changes. 5.By changing oneself, adapt to the changed situations. 6.Enjoy and savor the change. 7.Be ready for the new change. In this story, Cheese is the metaphor for whatever is really important to us while the maze stands for wherever we look for whatever is important to us. The cheese could be job, relationship, money, house, fame, health, excellency in sports etc. The maze is either the organisation we work for, our family, community we live in etc. Through the four caricatures, Dr Spenser, has illustrated what happens when we are confronted with Change, something we instinctively want to minimize and avoid, but that happens to us. We respond to change in a variety of ways. Many of us might not appreciate being equated to little people or mice in a maze, but the fact is, action speaks louder than our choices. From the adventure of four creatures, we see that Sniff is the seeker, always expecting change and moving forward to find alternatives. Scurry is constantly moving, never perturbed by change since he creates as much changes by change. Haw, a thinker, realizes that changes are inevitable and by learning to change with change can bring happiness. Hem is a character, prone to wait and see, never ever impressed by change and much cautious to want it. This book say that no matter what changes, we should see it as a good thing. This we all know and herein lies the power of the book. This is a parable that everybody could relate to. It is universal in scope, simple in message and true for all. The book must be read in full, enjoyed, learnt and shared widely.
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Summary: IM ONE MORE FOOL U THINK TO REVIEW THEN READ ON
Review: This book is the best book not only on earth on any planet. if u think its kidds stuff yes it is but thats the catch u can be benifitted from it and thats what counts.i owe my life if at all to anything then to this book alone. 1 star for perfect size,1 for perfect prize,1 for easy of language,1 for content and 1 for the excellent message given in it.and thats total 5 stars hope this helps
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Summary: Simplistic, but it has a message
Review: This is a very small and not overly challenging book with a simplistic message. Underneath the fable of the mice and the men, Johnson is dealing with change: how change can come with little warning, how different people react differently to change, how people prefer to be snug and safe and therefore fear change. The cheese here is an allegory for whatever you may value, be it money, relationships, even just cheese! What happens when your cheese suddenly vanishes and you cannot seem to get it? Do you sit and wait in the hope it will return? Do you try to find out what happened and thereby get hold of some more cheese? The book has a message so do not get put off by the fable format. What seems to be obvious and common sense is not always so in real life and sometimes a silly fable helps like a poke in the ribs. Worth a read but I find the bestseller rankings hard to believe!
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Summary: Stop denying Change, another way to view change in your life
Review: Change happens. Most of the time you are not the one to initiate it or even first to notice it. Dr. Johnson has put a great story together that is easy for adults and children to use as a way to look at change. Who are you, Hem, Haw, Sniff, or Scurry? Read the book and you'll see. I read it in 1 1/2 hours (2 sessions) with my Wife and 2 children (9 and 4). It was amazing, we had the kids attention for the entire time and afterward we all had a great discussion and it has carried on for a couple of days. With many changes in our lives it was a great way to put perspective on the changes and help us with ideas about finding some "New Cheese" Buy the book and maybe you'll see that your "Old Cheese" has too much mold and you need to find some "New Cheese". I've decided to go hunting for some Extra Sharp Cheddar!
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Summary: Cheesed Off by This Book
Review: Yes, thanks to "Who Moved My Cheese," we now know who had the talent to write, "One Minute Manager." Hint: it WASN'T the author of Cheese. I've tried very hard to figure out why people think this insulting and simplistic book is valuable. I've gone back to read previous chapters that I could barely stand the first time, and still I don't see it. What I read instead if ridiculous nonsense written as if we were all children about why we should be happy that corporations are upending the workplace. That, actually, is an entirely separate issue that can't be dealt with here because the presentation is so stupid that it interferes with what otherwise is an important topic: recognizing and accepting change. In a healthy way. Not as if we were a bunch of mice too dumb to do anything but run down the passage to an unknown fate. There has to be better stuff out there. Please?
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Summary: A message that everyone agrees with anyway
Review: Spencer Johnson, who has made a name for himself in the self-help industry with his "One Minute Manager" series of books has a winning formula: keep the message simple. "Who Moved My Cheese?" is a mere 94 pages long. The printing is extra large, and each page often contains no more than short paragraph or a single sentence, It's the kind of book you can read while standing on one foot. It carries an important message though: change is inevitable and adaptation essential. He uses the parable of characters living in a maze who look for cheese to nourish them. There are two mice named Sniff and Scurry who live by their instincts. Then there are the two "littlepeople" named Hem and Haw who live by their intellect. When all of a sudden they do not find cheese in its usual place, the two little mice immediately start searching for more. Hem and Haw, however, spend too much time hoping things will change and looking for cheese in all the wrong places. One of the beauties of this book is that it can be applied to all kinds of situations. The cheese can represent anything that we have depended on for satisfaction in life. In a simple way it shows that as one door closes, we have to find satisfaction by opening another door. This can apply to everything - a job, a relationship, our physical health, etc. It's an all-purpose feel-good book that's an inspiration. The success of the book lies in a message that everyone agrees with anyway. We all nod our heads in agreement as we read it, and smile when we finish, knowing that from now on, we'll look at change with a whole new perspective. It might be an oversimplification, but it works. I therefore recommend it. But just remember, it says nothing new.
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Summary: Reccomended to 2nd graders
Review: I was told this book was great, changed people's lives, etc... So I went into it excited to learn. However, I quickly, and I mean quickly, was bored with this book. It is written on a 2nd grade level, and tries to teach lessons that only a 2nd grader would find enlightening. There are so many things wrong with this book, I don't have the time, or inclination to highlight them. Especially annoying is the forewood which states that if you don't like this book (the story), that if you don't find the stories enlightening, that you are somehow missing it, and not able to realize the value of the book. I think the author should get off his high horse, and give some credit to his readers. It is certainly possible, if not prevalent, that people already understand and live by the "lessons" this book tries to impart.
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