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Summary: Unique - but doesn't quite live up to its hype
Review: With a plethora of self-help books on the market and with a similar number dealing with "work self-help" new books have a problem. They have to enter a crowded market and carve their own 'niche'.This book does that insofar as the method of storytelling and the book's basic approach make it both unique and accessible to the its most likely readers. However the book leaves one disappointed. There isn't much 'new' here - it's the presentation that serves to clarify points that have been stated by others many times in other books. Again as another reviewer said - you could probably read this from the library and not need to buy it. However if it's your first book of this type, it may be worth it for you to purchase the book. This book reminds one of an athlete who has a lot of 'potential' coming out of college but only shows occasional flashes of brilliance during their career.
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Summary: simple minded garbage
Review: I gave it one star because it is not possible to give zero. all what is said in this book (be prepared to view change positively and respond to it timely) is known to a 5 yr old child and reading this book only TELLS them (without saying how) you need to change which is easier said than done. It is like telling someone you need to lose weight , how helpful is such advice? Any major change can only be brought about by determination, sacrifice, courage and taking risks not by reading a book, (inspirational stories might help) I am amazed at the IQ of the average American if they think garbage like this can really change their lives.
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Summary: A lifetime Classic
Review: This book was recommended to me by some friends with the promise that I could read the whole thing in an hour. What nobody told me is, that once you read it, you can apply what you learn to every aspect of your life. You can always go back and re-read it and find a new meaning and a new teaching from it. It's simple vocabulary makes it perfect for everyone of ALL ages (children included). I can see myself going back to this simple great book, 10-20 yrs. from now, and STILL learn a lesson from it.
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Summary: keep on moving
Review: i wish i had read this book the minute my company filed chapter 11. this should be required reading for everyone! a simple story with a powerful message.
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Summary: This is the "Real World"?
Review: I received this book as a gift for Christmas from a supposed "family" member. He said it would change my life. It changed his. My other family members chimed in, saying it was the best thing they had ever read. I now wish I was adopted. I read the thing in 15 minutes (Not a good sign. A supposed "life" changing book that packs all its knowledge into a format that can be read in such a short amount of time. Something is wrong with that. I'm not even going to mention the primary language used. If this is a book written for businesses by a high ranking business consultant, its a nice commentary on the intelligence level of those running our economy. I feel safer already.) I am finishing my last semester in a University and am about to enter the "real world", which I think prompted my loving family to purchase this book for me. Now I'm thinking of failing a class just so I can stay in college for as long as possible just so I don't have to endure the idiocy of the real world. According to this book, something you strive for can simply be picked up and moved by some powerful figure and you simply have to accept it and "move" with it, disregarding everything that you have put into the "cheese". That's very heartening. I'm looking forward to being a pawn for a CEO. Only, I must keep my running shoes on, just in case I'm "down-sized". But, I have to move with the cheese right? Blech. This book is simple propaganda. Be loyal, be submissive, those higher up than you know better. Just move with the cheese and all will be well. Unless your baby daughter catches influenza and you just lost your health benefits because the company is cutting costs and your years with them really don't matter, seeing that it's all about the bottom line anyway. Just move with the cheese my friend. Man. I'm looking forward to entering this fun filled, action packed world we've created for ourselves. Thanks Spencer!
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Summary: Old concept/new package.
Review: On one hand it is an amusing and simple to read book that presents a story as a simple metaphor or tool for people to find meaning and interpretation in thier own lives. It is cute and simple and educating/possibly even enlightening to most hard working but somewhat disconnected people in the current employment "system". In this respect I found it useful. Another perspective was broader and shockingly disappointing. You mean this concept has not occurred to people before???? Things change and if you cannot bend with change than you will break? It took me back to ENDLESS "employee improvement" seminars that are best at taking the most simple concept, repackaging it and making it into an even simpler and somehow mystically more fasinating cure-all / of almost religious proprotions, usually ending in the selling of the speakers book or at very minimum satisfying the corporations "hours of employee improvement requirements". I have sat through so many of these very formulated inservices that I could probably create one myself. Everyone reaches enlightenment, goes back to work and still steals the companies pencils. hmm...so much for everyone gets a folder and draws a circle and a square and suddenly they can "conceive and believe" new and better ways of improving not just their work, but every aspect of their lives...hence another book is sold. Amazing. BUT - I liked the book. It's cute, short, makes it's point - however not a complicated point or one that had not occurred to many before. I am not surprised that so many see this "change will happen, you have to change with change and choose carefully what happiness means for you" concept as new, a revelation or surprising - because I have worked with them. They have woken up day after day with a very victim mentality, done the same things and continually have achieved the same disappointing results. Some people do not question. Some people do not search. Some people do not create thier own luck or lives. They take what is given, they only hope for better without action and they do not ask why enough or take steps to change direction for fear that they may fail. For others the thought of change has not even occurred to them. This shocks me. I don't see myself as a person of superior intelligence, but I have confronted almost constant changing of goals, expectations and gosh, locations myself. I, have probably had over 100 different "cheeses" (goals/aspirations or happiness quests) already in my life as do most of us. Each time I just reach a point where I realize I have not yet, but can - not yet and can't - or not yet and have decided not to continue the quest for the goal I change direction - but not because it is a matter of lacking fear...I change direction because I see no other alternative and wallowing in what was, or what cannot be is a waste of time. Last point. The cheese. Most people identify or realize their "cheese" or as I would call it "quest for what they identify as happiness or success or safety or security" very early in life...for some it's sports, some it's money, some it's sex, some love, some material goods, the list goes on and on. Intelligent people are aware of what this is, steps to get there, take them and the whole journey is very much obvious to them in their own awareness of things. For others, they have no idea where they are, what they are going after or how to get there and then the gray area of folks inbetween. My point is and I believe that most people identify their "cheese" as this: The absence of change. And in this sense, because the very threat of change itself is a threat, for them, the book is not helpful because they will only return searching for a situation where change will not occur. Complicated. I wouldn't lend a whole semester of deep discussion of this book in particular - but it does simplify some very real psychological concepts such as the ability to be a successful person who adapts to stress (change) well or not. Many more factors affect this other than if you expected the change or not. Genetics, environmental factors, past history of response and general emotional health and outlook on life. "Cheese" for today's young folk means many many different things. Where and when in your development as an adult that your "cheese(s)" became identified or realized would be an interesting study and I think, would contribute to helping people choose "cheeses" that might be more satisfying and/or help people see the clear path to what they desire. My strategy? Don't have just one "cheese"...like sharp or cheddar or munster - Learn to enjoy many different kinds of "cheeses"...and this will make "changing your cheese" an alternative during a crisis - instead of panicking because someone "took your cheese", just change your cheese!
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Summary: Worth 20 minutes
Review: This is a cute little story, written in a similar style to that of Heroz and Zapp, both on empowerment (which are both fabulous). This pamphlet length hardcover volume conveys a very simple story about a few characters who must deal with change. They are used to going to a certian place each day to find cheese, which symbolizes a job, life satisfaction or whatever one may find to be of great importance in life. One day the supply of cheese is gone, the two mice immediately move on to find a new supply, while the two littlepeople, Hem and Haw, procrastinate and dwell over their loss. By simply moving on, and accepting the change the mice are better off. If you run across a copy of "Who Moved My cheese?" pick it up and read it, it's worth 20 minutes or so to read the meat of the book. It's a cute little story, from which you may learn something. The material this book contains amounts to less than that found in a Cliff Notes Volume, so you might actually read the whole thing.
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Summary: Short, but right to the point with humor
Review: This is a book you can read during lunch hour. Yes, it's thatshort, but all the principles in there are right to the point. I alsoenjoyed the humor which made the rather serious subject matter easierto digest. Readers will walk away having learned somethingimportant. Another book that I recently read and which discussedaspects of how to deal with change but also offers nice little hintsto a happier life is Dietmar Scherf's "I LOVE ME: Avoiding &Overcoming Depression."
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Summary: Food for thought !?
Review: First off, it's a extremely easy read. I found it entertaining and I believe I'll remember the concepts and think back on them through the years. But, "Move in, consume all, move on" -- this is more a set of guidelines for locusts than ideals for healthy living to apply widely. I have found it didn't apply well to MANY aspects of my life/relationships, while the story hints it is a universal truth to be applied to almost anything we deem "Cheese". I agree with some other readers that it definitely talks down to us, but that's expectable from a parable about 'cheeze'.
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Summary: Great for looking inward
Review: this is a great little book. It really makes you look at yourself in a new way. I recommened it to my Manager who tends to be a "Haw".
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