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Summary: Don't believe the hype
Review: Don't buy this book. There are no great insights to be gained. The only point in the book is that things change, accept this fact and be positive. The parable is a gimmick.There is one amusing aspect of the book where the author attempts to diffuse criticism by presenting a discussion in which one character says he already understands the theme of the book and found the book unnecessary. The other characters in the discussion then laugh at the naysayer as being unable to accept change. I'll buy the naysayer a beer anytime. The mocking characters are all so naive and sheltered as to be insufferable.
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Summary: Another Insult to the intelligent employee!
Review: We were handed this book at an all-hands meeting at Boeing IS. The book was insulting, as are many of this type of management book that seems to be aimed at intelligent employees rather than the idiot executives who pay consultants to come up with such drival. The only thing that needs change is the management of companies who can't communicate with their employees and tell it like it is, in addition to walking their own talk.
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Summary: Watch for the axe
Review: Last June our new Executive Director at work gave all 100 employees this atrocious book. I would have rather had the $10. Anyway, a week later, ten of us were fired. If you get this from anyone at work...beware. Even if I hadn't been fired, I wouldn't want to work for a company where this was the biggest/best gift I got all year. What a lousy book. I would have given it zero stars, but that wasn't an option.
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Summary: Management Must Have
Review: This parable is a great read. It simplifies the human need for obtaining happiness and the reaction to having happiness taken away. The story offer great insight on how to identify what type of mouse you need to deal with after you move their cheese. This book is a must have for any person that oversees or manages people on a day to day basis.
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Summary: If you like to buy books, buy this book...
Review: If you want to know what this book is about, but don't want to read it, I can sum the book up in five (5) words: "Things change--get over it." Thank you.
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Summary: Doctor Seuss validates short-term thinking?
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is a simple, albeit expensive animated illustration of the pros and cons of contending with change in the life of a human being. It compares the instinctive behavior of two mice and two men who have found that the supply of "cheese" in their world has suddenly disappeared entirely. The mice move on and the humans sit around requiring an explanation! Clever... but... The author makes light of the behavior of humans to adopt change so readily and easily. By animated example, he contends that we make it more difficult than it has to be and that our acceptance of this change of environment is solely dependent on our singular decision. WRONG! This "change" that he illustrates most closely and conveniently resembles one's employment. I can only recommend that just for kicks, we go home and tell our wives one day that we are all moving to a third world country because that is now where the cheese is to be found.... Wife will heartily recommend that we look for a new spouse in addition to new cheese! Sometimes the decision is not made by only one person! This simple book is being promoted by many Fortune 500 companies in America as a means to justify the current industry fashion of short-sighted thinking and the short-term goals of those executives who are counting the days until their retirement. I am not concerned with this seemingly self-destructive train of business thought, since, as the author illustrates.... It will soon CHANGE!
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Summary: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.
Review: I had heard some good things about this book and was in need of a litte inspiration so I checked it out from the local library. And boy am I glad I didn't pay for this thing. This book contains nothing groundbreaking or new. It is just a clever little rehash of common sense. The actual parable of the mice, cheese and little people could be useful if you allowed people to read it for themselves and forge their own opinions. But the filler at the beginning and the end is what relagates this book to one of the all-time rip-offs. I guess the author thinks we are all idiots because he creates these shallow charichatures of normal people and has them talk down to the reader, telling the reader first what to think about the cheese story, and then second try to attribute all of the good things that will happen in their life to the cheese story. This is self promotion at its best, or worst, however you want to look at. If you need something like this book to motivate you to find true happiness in life, then our country is in pretty bad shape because their sure are a lot of suckers out there. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.
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Summary: You need an expensive book to tell you this stuff?
Review: Why does one need a book to tell what this book tells you?Motivation begins with oneself. No matter what, you still got to get out of your chair to do whatever. This costly little book isn't going to do anything for you. To be honest, I didn't even bother to finish reading, got bored. Nice attempt by the author. Maybe this stuff works for some people. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, it isn't.
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Summary: Childish cheese
Review: The first 18 pages are devoted to telling you how good the book is and who it has helped. I prefer to judge the merits of a book for myself and if Dr. Johnson feels he needs testimonials, let them be at the end where I can skip them or on the back cover as is customary in paperbacks. I feel that within the first 18 pages of a tiny book that list for $19.95 I would like to be well into the crux of the subject. The next six pages cover what should have been an introductory paragraph, having no relevance to the reader. There is a tie-in with the last 18 useless pages. The next 52 pages are interspersed with 13 pages of low-budget, page long, simple illustrations added to make this simple work have more length than text justifies. The text is in a 13 point font when an acceptable font standard is 11 point, thus adding many pages. Many pages are from 2/5 to 1/4 blank, adding to the padding, so to speak. The last 18 pages reiterate the obvious at the 5th grade level, insulting the intelligence of the reader even more that the third grade level story. Evidently we, the readers, are too simple to comprehend a few well chosen paragraphs regarding change and adaptability. We evidently also seem to need a fairy tale and a dim witted accompanying story line to assist us in comprehension of the authors completely unoriginal thoughts. Thus, the author has stretched a few paragraph of often repeated advice (given over and over for a period of at least a thousand years) into a 94 page book and an unearned $19.95. Mayhaps the high level people he deals with need to be talked to at a kindergartner level but in the future, I shall opt for original thought, not comic book level learning ...
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Summary: Quick and simple yet effective
Review: Sure it's a corny concept: bring a cute little pair of mice into the real world of parables and self-help jargon and make their story easy to follow and even easier to read...BUT THE CONCEPT WORKS! This is perhaps the simplest yet hardest to grasp message in today's world of lightening fast movement and change. I enjoyed it enough to give two friends a copy, then gave mine to a few family members. The unanimous verdict was that the message was clear and powerful: roll with the changes in life to move forward, otherwise risk being stuck in a rut of mediocrity, and sometimes failure.
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