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Summary: Somebody Move this Book about Moving Cheeze
Review: This has got to be the silliest, stupidest, most inane book I have ever seen, directed at management and/or business persons. What a colossal waste of a tree to print it on the paper it used. Even more to the point, what a colossal waste of time to read it. The system wouldn't let me rate it below 1 star.
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Summary: A One Star, "I.Q. One" Book
Review: What a disappointing, badly produced booklet! 93 pages of so-called advice on "adapting to change" so obvious and banal it must have been written for an "I.Q.1" nitwit...or was it meant for those managers, who still have not learned that it is their cheese, which should really be moved when it comes to reorganizing and down-sizing a company? Employees everywhere are far more adaptable and already know to expect it. They do not need to be insulted by having to read it in such simplistic, kindergarten language. I pity those, who feel comfortable at this reading level. I know I much preferred a good laugh at some of the many managerial blunders, which I read in the witty and satirical book, "Management by Vice". But then I suspect that managers, lacking in a tactful sense of humor, who merrily handout this "cheesy stuff", would likely never want something like the candid "Management by Vice" book to get into the hands of their bright employees! Who knows, it might bring about a Real Change in the way employees and investors perceive management and then, who may have to digest this "I.Q.1" booklet and whose cheese might end up being moved?!
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Summary: Incomplete story
Review: I found this book to be a disappointment primarily because it left out the answer to an important question, "Why is this cheese being moved so much?" While it does address, in a humorous way, the basic characters we find within all organizations who resist change no matter what, those who are quick to adapt to change, etc., it leaves out the motivation of the "cheese mover", who seemingly moves the cheese frequently, without planning,logic or explanation. Consequently, the message I received from this book was that the best employees are those who go along with "moving the cheese" in a robotic, unquestioning way. I am dissapointed that this comes from such a recognized author and it runs counter to good management philosophy.
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Summary: Fun to read at first, but one mistake
Review: Fun book, except for on page 44 Haw paints a picture in his mind: "He saw himself venturing out into the maze with a smile on his face." Hem never adapts to change. The discussion afterward gets boring. On page 87 Angela says, "The most powerful part of the story was when Hem laughed at his fear and went on to paint a picture in his mind, where he saw himself enjoying New Cheese." Weird mistake to write that "Even Hems can sometimes see the advantage of changing," (p. 87) when in the story Hem never did see any advantage of change?
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Summary: Antidote
Review: What you can learn from this book is how to push business books into the market: Amazon ranking 9 (as of today). It's fantastic. Now compare the success in sales with - as an example - Richard Farson's "Management of the Absurd", which is a great antidote against Johnson's book. Johnson's cheese book is about change, but surely not about change in the brains of those who promote the book. Farson, however, asks the leaders themselves to take the lead in really changing their attitude to management. Obviously that is asking for too much: Amazon ranking 22872. Farson's book ist for strong leaders who can cope with complexity and absurdity. Therefore the big majority chooses Johnson's cheese.
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Summary: Change Creates Opportunity (Not Cheese)
Review: I received _Who Moved My Cheese?_ as a Christmas 2000 gift. The book languished on my bookshelf for a good three weeks when I decided to give it a whirl. It was, after all, a Christmas gift and the guilt involved in ignoring a gift increases exponentially over time. _Cheese_ is split into three major sections. The "pre-story" which sets the stage for the actual story by first giving some background about how the story came to be. Second, the author creates a fictional gathering of friends... one of whom tells the actual Cheese story. The writing in these two sections almost forced me to stop reading altogether. The characters are terrifically simplistic and dull... the dialog follows suit. Remember junior high? Think about the stories you read then, dumb them down a bit, and you're ready to go! The actual _Cheese_ story kicks in and, well, it's actually worth it. The lessons hover around the basic idea that "Change creates opportunity" which is a good thing to remember when your life is good. It's even more important (and harder to remember) when life is hard. The story delivers the message in a palatable way using the metaphor of mice (and little people?) looking for cheese in a maze. The reason I'm not ripping on this portion of the book is that the simple messages continue to pop into my mind for the next few days and was actually useful in extricating me from sticky situations. The final part is how our fictional gathering of friends felt and dealt with the story. I have no idea what happens here as I'd had just about enough of Nathans, Angelas, and Carlos antics and set the book down for good. It is amusing to hear and read about people who have an intense negative knee-jerk reaction this story. They appear either to believe the book is an attempt at brainwashing or that it's message is just too obvious and; therefore, useless. _Cheese_ is neither. _Cheese_ creates a pleasant metaphor for delivering a simple message. Change always creates opportunity.
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Summary: This was excellent
Review: I thought that this book was well written and helped me to realize that you can't waste your life suffering over things that can't be changed...you must move on and always look ahead to the brighter things to come. Life deals everyone with difficulties, but you can't beat yourself up over them.
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Summary: Simple fact made visual and olfactory.
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" simply put, is a parable. What is a parable? It is a story that teaches us a very simple fact through symbolism. The "fact" of "Who Moved My Cheese" is easy enough-- change happens, get ahead of it, and you will be made happy by it; get behind it, and you will get hurt by it. The story of the little men and the mice and the cheese "the thing that makes us happy" really drives the point home-- and YES, the book does make a couple of profound points, even if they are simple points. The most important point the book makes is that we should keep our eyes open to indicators of what is about to happen. I wish I had read this book three years ago. I was going through a situation that could have been avoided if only I had been watching out. All the indicators were there. My "cheese" got moved, but if I had been watching, I would not have found myself in a predicament where I had to look for new cheese. I could have been the agent of change instead of the victim of change. It's one thing to know intellectually that change is coming and we must adjust-- it's quite another to be able to see the knowledge and smell the knowledge the way "Who Moved My Cheese?" makes you. "Who moved My Cheese" is similar in tone to the book "Castle of Wisdom" by Rhett Ellis, which is perhaps the greatest book of this kind ever-- short, symbollic, and powerful.
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Summary: Whoever Moved My Cheese Didn't Have to Work at It
Review: The most superficial work about work that I've read yet. It's hard to believe that anyone is taking this seriously - there's no substance to it at all.
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Summary: Good for those afraid of change.
Review: This book is a very fast read. In the beginning some friends are gathering together to talk about their lives. One of the friends tells this story about 4 characters who live in a maze and search for cheese. Upon finding the cheese, the characters are all very happy, but when the cheese is gone, 2 of the characters quickly move on to find more cheese, 1 moves on reluctantly when he realizes that he does not have a choice, and 1 stays in the same place, whining and crying that his cheese is gone. The cheese is a metaphor for anything you might want. The maze is obviously the path you must travel before reaching your goal. The moral of the story is to understand that when something is taken from you, whining and crying about it won't help. You must take action, commit yourself to your goal, and envision yourself reaching the goal before you meet with success.
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