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Summary: Should this have been for children?
Review: Acclaimed as a thought provoking way to get you to look at your attitude towards change. It came off as a condesending children's book. It wanted you to identify with a character when really it was telling you who you should be by only developing one character. And, for it to think that we are not at sometimes all of the characters at once, is silly. It was shallow to imply that the mice found the cheese because of their instinct and took off without overthinking. The author never explored the dangers of mouse traps. For a more grown up read, try Managing Personal Change by Hyrum W. Smith (Reader), Stephen R. Covey.
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Summary: Life is what you make it
Review: I think this was a great book and it was very simple proving that life is simple we make it hard. When we are moved, pushed,or stray from our natural habitat or habits we sometimes find it very hard to reajust when it is really easy we just choose the hard way of adapting to change be it a career, personal, religious or otherwise we complicate it when if we would just stop think and look beyond right now we would be able to reajust much sooner.Also it sometimes takes some effort which is something all of us don't want to exert, everything in life will not stay the same and if we stay in one spot we too will find ourselves in trouble and all because we refuse to move we just do it the same way we have been doing for years even when we know the way we have been doing it is no longer working.
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Summary: A life lesson via parable
Review: Parables are an effective means to enclose unpleasant tales inside a palatable wrapper. We recognize aspects of ourselves in most of them and learn what to do in the best of them. This tale is one that is effective as a consequence of the simplicity. There are four main characters, all of which have life easy for awhile. However, once the adversity strikes, we see how each responds, which is a simple, powerful lesson about life.
No matter how hard we try or pretend it is otherwise, the world around us changes. Events beyond our control create our reality so our only hope of dealing with it is to find alternatives to what we had before. The evidence, although anecdotal, is strongly in favor of the premise that an active search for alternatives almost always yields a better situation than existed before the change. There are many lessons in this simple tale, as a fan of fables, it is one of the best that I have ever read.
There are some who deride this book as being too simple. To them, I ask that they go back and read some of the wonderful fables by Aesop. The amount of basic wisdom found in parables is not related to the simplicity of the story, but is based on how we interpret and act on it. I concur with the cover, it is a gem.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese?
Review: I read this book at work in about 15 minutes. The ideas that it was trying to get across are great, but I think that it could have done it in a more adult and mature way. I laughed through most of the book and thought that most of the story was really dumb. I guess that I was expecting a more realistic approach to the philosophy of "go get 'em". The mice and the cheese is really something that I would read to a 5 year old.
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Summary: It's a funny eye opener
Review: I really enjoyed reading Who moved my cheese. Although the book is a very quick read, it gives you some eye openers how people behave at work. I am looking for the sequel with hopefully more insights.
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Summary: excellent and purposefully vague
Review: This is a story about how to handle change. The story is purposefully vague as change is always different. The 4 characters in the story are archetypes of how people handle change: searching, activity, planning, and resisting. I read this story not from a business perspective, but from a therapy perspective. I have several clients that I feel could benefit from this book. Here is one observation that I made about the REVEIWERS: If they liked it they applied it to themselves, if they hated it they just critique the story and find its holes they never look at themselves... Makes you wonder why they were given the book in the first place...
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Summary: Cheese on!!!!!!
Review: I've always thought that I was one of those people who have always looked for...sought out change...marched to a different drummer. What I learned from this book is that in a lot of ways I am, but a still can get tooooooo comfortable and forget what's just around the corner. Not just an entertaining book, one that can change your life and everyones (hopefully) that you share it with. Cheese on!!!!! kary
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Summary: Cheese!
Review: My boss handed me this book and said, "got 30 minutes?" I did have 30 minutes and I did read it. There was no pressure by him, just a gesture. Am I glad that I read it! The next day we talked about it... although it is nothing that changed my life over night, I have thought a lot about "my cheese" and some aspects of my life that I may be not paying attention to. In some ways, I identified with each character. I really liked the simple story and at the time I just read it as "the story," but I have come away with quite a bit of thought about the book. Hmmmm... isn't that a sign of a good book? I think so.
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Summary: Not a whole lot of cheese here
Review: This book is probably helpful for a simpleton, but if you've got more than a 6th grade education I'd advise something a little more meaty. Like maybe a leg of lamb. A much better book on career decisions is Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I feel this book is excellent. I saw myself as "Haw." There are so many negative reviews because (1) simplicity. I count the simplicity a plus. If the author had chosen a more complex writing language or style still, like most of these online reviewers, the author's point would have been missed completely. (If you don't get it in the simpliest form, you can't get it in a more thought provoking complex form.) This book, though simple, carries a powerful message. It's not about accepting change for change sake or because it is thrust upon you. It is about analyzing the goals you have for your life, how it fits within your present life or employment situations, evaluating where you are in life as well as making the necessary change in your life to fulfill your happiness. Yeah, the characters are child like. However, this book's basic foundation is taking a deep truthful look at one's life situations, make decisions, then act upon those decisions. I advise anyone to get a copy of this book and make your own decisions. You may still come away with the same negative feelings. But I will have to say, like most of these reviewers, you will be the charater "Hem." Hemmed into a box fearing to think, reasoned and respond differently to information presented in a totally simple child-like story format.
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