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Summary: What is this?
Review: As other reviewers have noted, this is merely a modern fairy tale for your modern workplace - nothing here except another empty best seller to fill the void between chatting with your freinds and playing online golf at work. How this book is supposed to help those who are "stuck" in their job is beyond me, motivation couldn't come from this paperback fluff - especially if you are not already prepared. And if you are already there, then spend your money on a book which actually helps you get where you want to go, like "What Color is Your Parachute?" Yeah, this little thing is short, but why waste your money? This book's cost of $12 is hardly justified, either. I couldn't believe the list price of $19.95, at least they dropped it down some. Anyways, I've ranted enough, but please don't buy into the hype - I read another person's copy just to see what it was all about, and was truly disappointed that this had become such a bestseller.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese? Even the title is a joke
Review: I read this book with an OPEN MIND, and after spending 20 bucks and reading this piece of trite garbage in half and hour, I felt like an idiot, no like someone who needs help changing. Sniff and Scurry are little mice, and Hem and Haw are two little people who are searching for cheese in a giant maze. It is supposed to teach us about how change is good, and how to cope with change, but it comes off as stupid. For a self-help book, you can't get anymore lame than this. You need help with change, huh? Start by removing this book from your shopping cart. There is no redeeming value here.
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Summary: Drivellll, complete bore this guy should be punished
Review: More utter drivel from an other bs artist. This book has reccomendations for doing things in your life that "up your sales" and avoiding "ruts" and repeated behaviors that you feel should [who feels this way] yield results when the game has changed....Its like the guy is a classic "master of the obvious" Save yourself some money.. don't buy this patronizing essay designed for managers who want to simply dull and blunt the brains of thier inferiors...sure to be a best seller at business schools for that exact reason...n don't think...thats what otehrs do....read Winning through Intimidation by Ringer instead....Real Politique still rules the world....
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Summary: A must read
Review: For anyone who is going through any kind of transition in their life. You owe it to yourself to get this book.
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Summary: Good for Those Who Want to Get It
Review: I was asked to read this book at work and found the book's message to be powerful and to the point (even if the delivery was a bit to simplistic). I feel this book will be an eye opener to those who just go through their daily grind and are too nervous to make the changes that will improve their quality of life. The Hems out there (and it seems manys Hems reviewed this book for Amazon) just won't want to accept the message and therefore disregard it.
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Summary: A parable that rings as true as a plastic bell
Review: This book attempts to be a metaphor for understanding and embracing change, which it attempts to illustrate using an invented story of some little creatures who have a handy supply of cheese that - guess what - gets moved. Some of the creatures move on in search of new cheese, some keep coming back in the forlorn hope that the cheese will reappear. I'm sure you get the picture, and the point. It can be summed up in a sentence and I'm afraid that plodding through this book does little to enhance the point.Metaphors can be powerful tools for illustrating great truths and teachings - just think of the parables and myths in the world's great religions. And maybe the author has hit on a metaphor that works for a lot of people, judging by the sales figures. But after forking out a hefty $19.95 and reading the book in the half hour between fasten seat belts and the meal service, I was left feeling a mixture of disappointment, outrage and bafflement. Disappointment because I had been told that this was a wonderful, moving tale. Different strokes for different folks, but I've felt more touched and involved by weather forecasts. At no point did any of this book connect with me. In fact, the attempted metaphor is so embarrassingly clunky and transparently contrived that I ended up feeling outrage. What I now feel is bewilderment. There are loads of huge media successes that I may not like - Springer, the Die Hard movies, Gangsta Rap etc - but I can imagine what people get out of them. They are tongue-in-cheek, hammed up gut-level stuff. Whereas "Who Moved my Cheese" is ponderous, tedious, moralising and rings as true as a plastic bell. I hesitate to say that it's the worst book I've ever read, but I can't think of any worse. Still, at least it's short. Try comparing it with "The man who planted trees" by Jean Giono.
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Summary: WHO MOVED....MY WHAT?
Review: You could read this book in the time it takes you to eat your lunch, and still have time left over for that second cup of coffee. Simplistic, you say? That would be an understatement. This is more like a Grimm's fairytale for grown ups. Then we run across Sniff and Scurry, Hem and Haw? Now what does that tell you about the book? The only characters missing are "the cat and the fiddle" and "the cow who jumped over the moon." If this book (all 94 pages of it) has, indeed, helped save marriages, businesses, health and careers, we are destined to put a lot of marriage counsellors, business consultants and health care practitioners right out of business! How is that for adjusting to change?
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Summary: Wolves in Monks Clothing
Review: The cheese is desire, we are all in a maze called life chasing the cheese. True. And we all need to realize that change is the one certainty. We are happiest when we let go of clinging to our idea of cheese and live in reality, truly living genuine, open lives. (You have just read the book- dont bother buying it.) What makes me ill is that all this simplicity and truth seems to be a corporate way of saying that you had better buck up and have a good attitude because all Hem's are history. Insult to injury, it really IS written at about a 3rd grade reading level. "See Spot run!" can be life changing, too... if it is the first book you have ever read about dogs.
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Summary: All the Fuss About A Fable? Take a Fresh Look.
Review: Even if you resent the thrust of this book as do many reviewers and corporate recipients, there are reasons to read it. The ancient use of fables that this book utilizes is to simplify and impersonalize the issues so that an evaluation can be made. You might call it a way to turn human relations into something like arithmetic. Life is far more complicated than a fable. The fable should allow you to think without emotional baggage. After all, no one is suggesting anything is true or relevant in a fable it is up to you to decide. Because the book has stirred up so much emotions and sales for the author and publisher, we are going to see a lot more fables in books. I suspect many will be better written and offer more comprehensive insight. The books popularity as a gift to employees is fascinating. Given the emphasis on individual action to be one of the good characters in the fable, the message is forget team work, forget the company, take care of your family and self-- no matter what it takes. The company has little responsibility to you. Management and boards of directors have slowly learned that their responsibility is to the shareholders-end of story. I have thought for sometime that middle management and employees that would awaken to the reality that their is very little reason for loyalty to the corporation. The popularity of this book with top managements would indicate that they are ready to speak plainly, perhaps they can't handle the emotional baggage of what happens to employees and they want to set the contract down with complete clarity. The loyalty of the corporation is from paycheck to paycheck and the employee should not take offense. If you can find a better deal outside the company you will be gone. If you are there for the next paycheck, you did not find a better deal. More than ever before, a management that pays less than the replacement value of an employee is foolish. The changes that face corporations are dramatically greater than even a decade ago. Managers have always had trouble seeing change-just look at any group of long-term stock price charts randomly selected. Because CEOs are not very good at anticipating change, boards of directors are replacing CEOs at a much faster rate than ever before. Society at all levels has to deal with much greater rates of change-- much more widespread and profound than anything suggested by this book. Morality and ethics at the level of the individual needs to be strengthened and factored into who you employ, who you follow and who you vote for more than ever before because the future is more uncertain as well as more exciting.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I agree with the author's assessment of his story -- that we each derive our own value from this book's topic and content. Personally, it had timely and profound meaning. I felt this book is less about management, though I can see why it might be interpreted as such. Rather, it is about our personal psychology on how we want to live a life. (To that end, I saw some parallels with Jonar Nader's How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People.) The key thing this book did was to help me dig down inside of myself and make conscious what I already know. I believe that is the author's purpose; not to teach or preach, but to have readers rethink some self-obvious truths that are sometimes suppressed when we settle for long-term comfort. I feel the simple english and plain images helps us (at least me) do that in a non-threatening way. After reading it, I submitted my resignation. I have a good job in management that I could be comfortable in for at least ten years or more. But I hate mediocrity, especially within myself. And I felt what I was doing was not challenging my true potential. That will eventually hurt my peers, senior management, and the great people who work for me. So, I dared myself to move on and take a look at the world. The book was not a driver, but a catalyst to that end.
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