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Summary: Whom Cheesed My Move?
Review: I must admit, this was an impulse buy. I thought this was about Rapper Jay-Z. No modern day rhyme sayer knows chedder better than my boy Jay-Z. "Big impin spendin' cheese, big pimpin on B-L-A-Ds". Afer I gave this book a read-thru, I was suprised and delighted to learn of a race of small humans, 2 of which who live in a maze. Sometimes their cheese gets moved around and they lose their way. What I don't understand is, what's the big deal. Why don't they pretend to be lactose intolerant and one could help the other over the side, and that one could go for help.
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Summary: Good - on one topic
Review: A nice simple read but this book is being recommended a bit too strongly for what it can really deliver. I got the message about 1/4 of the way through the book. I felt beaten over the head by the time I got to the end. Also, there's much more to managing change than what is described here and unfortunately some people I see reading it come away feeling more capable to manage change than they truly are.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese
Review: Very interesting to see who we really are and how we view life and life's changes. Easy to read in less than an hour. It gives you thought for days!
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Summary: Enough Already
Review: A very simplistic and unrealistic view of embracing change. It will never reach those who really need it because they will fail to see themselves. In the harsh reality of the business world, this has little use. Maybe managers need to stop handing it out right before they downsize and realize they are not fooling anyone.
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Summary: Cheese is crap
Review: Synopsis: Comply with the changes that are imposed on you or starve, you worm. Don't complain, don't cooperate with others, don't think outside the box (I mean "maze"), and do not let it even occur to you to actually make any changes on your own. That's not your place, you only work here. Hey, but cheese moves, which is just another way of saying "shit happens." This isn't a book for those who wish to be agents of change. It's for people buried deep within a hierarchical system not of their creation and over which they have no control, and by golly, loving every minute of it. It's a good gift to your kids if you're a controlling parent, but they'll definitely wise-up by the time they hit puberty and then you'll have to pay big-time for making them read this kind of crap. For those who wish to work with other individuals and other organizations to actually make change, I suggest the similarly sized "Thunder in the Sky", Thomas Cleary's translation of two ancient Chinese texts. You can't read it in 45 minutes, it may take you a few years. But c'mon, be a man, not a mouse.
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Summary: A cute story, but not very enlightening.
Review: The book begins with old classmates meeting at a reunion. A few of them decide to get together again to find out more about what is going on in their lives. One of the characters tells a cute little story about two mice and two people who lived their life running around a maze looking for cheese. Cheese, for the little people, represents success. The main metaphor is that the two little people get stuck in a rut once they find a place where the Cheese is good and will last them forever. When things change, the little mice run off looking for new cheese, but the little people have grown too comfortable in their new place and have a harder time deciding what to do. The story is clever in the way it personifies people's inability or unwillingness to accept change, but to me it just wasn't profound enough and didn't go into enough detail. Most of what you read here you will already know, you just won't be used to an author putting it in quite this way. This is actually a self help book told like a fairy tale, and I think the author would have done better just telling the facts and leaving out the cartoon like references. Also, the book can be read in one day, so it is very short, making it's contents not quite up to snuff in the self-help genre. It's not a bad book, just a case where the author forgot to elaborate on the story.
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Summary: Must read......if you're five.
Review: This book is insulting in its simplicity. Clearly the authors (and much of corporate America, apparently) believe the common worker to be so simple minded that it's impossible to write too beneath them. Talk about dumbing down!
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Summary: A Easy To Follow Guide For Those Who Don't Do Change Well.
Review: I have been thinking about this review for several days now, as I see that there are quite a few people not giving this book a very high rating. Just because the book is easy to read and simple to follow in logic, I feel this book for those people who do not do change well in life and for those who just flat out don't like changes in lifestyle COULD help that person identify with the mice and their quest for the cheese. In order to get the cheese, change is having to be thought of and the route to it thought through. I think if it were a more scholarly written book and not as simplified in the "story", the moral and points of "how to" go through changes without a full understanding of WHY and or HOW to map out the way to get to the top/cheese could be lost to those already stumbling their way through the maze of life. Even though I have and do read more scholarly books...I found this book helpful in thinking differently in changes I needed to make in my life and in making a more clear cut path in getting that which I aimed for as a life changing goal in my personal life. I think it is well worth the money invested to buy this book and read through it, afterwards think through and apply it to one's one life's goals. If the reader will go into the book with an open mind...an hour or less from when the first sentence is read, one could be restructuring just what it is one really wants in life and how he/she can best obtained and reach that goal.
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Summary: Inflated way to make an important, but simple, point
Review: Not a bad little book, but the point can be made a lot more quickly (and cheaply): To dramatize the ways different people respond to change, the story follows a couple of mice who discover one day that their accustomed cheese is missing. One, displeased at the disruption and wanting to return to the (vanished) past, squeals, "Who moved my cheese?" (as if there were somebody to blame). He thinks righteous indignation is the way to go. The other, after getting over the initial shock and realizing that he'd better be a citizen of the (inevitable) future, starts looking around for new cheese (how the change can mean opportunity for him). And after a number of false starts, he finds it. Change brings the disruption of our comfortable ways, and it's easy to grumble about that and hanker after the good old days. But the healthy person gets past this mode quickly and goes on to enjoy the adventure--exploring and developing the new opportunities that change also brings.
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Summary: Stinky cheese
Review: 3Theproblems with this book are basically two: it's expensive and it'srubbish. Written on a 7th grade reading level, it offers uppreposterously simple advice on how to deal with change in your life,especially at work. I and other reviewers have already done it here,so save some bucks and read about 5 of the reviews and you'vebasically read the book. The advice is this: "Expectchange." "Be flexible." Thank you, thank you... Feelfree to send me $20 (the coverprice of the book) for this amazingadvice, and be sure to share it with your friends as well.I agreethat we're living in a world of entropy but it's part of the humancondition to not like to change ourselves or our behavior. What isneeded is not a book with pithy lil' phrases like "expectchange" written as if it's for a 2nd grader beginning reader (mydaughter, who IS in 2nd grade, easily read this book but found itbooooring-- so did I). What we would need INSTEAD of this book issomething like a behavior modification plan or definite examples onhow to deal with real change in your life. How to effectively dealwith your boss coming to you and saying, "we're reengineering ourparadigms..." so you can actually keep your job and be happy...Or at the very least, how to revamp your resume so you can-- like thelegendary mice in the maze in "Cheese..."-- get the heck OUTof there and go find new, fresher cheese someplace else.
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