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Summary: How Simple!
Review: You know it all comes down to simplicity for me. I go around and around and always come back to the basics and love it! This little book that I knew only through it's funny title for the longest time finally grabbed me by coming into the library that I work in and looking so little that I thought - what the heck I'll read it and see what it's about! If nothing else it gives you terms to recognize when talking to other people. I have already been able to say Who Moved My Cheese? to someone and we were able to make light of the situation! That's all it is!In one of the previous reviews I loved the phrase: "It is merely a recognition that many changes are seemingly arbitrary and our choice is to either respond positively or negatively." I think that is it! Yeah! It really is simple. Another saying that I just love to say is: "It's not what happens to you in your life - but how you handle it when it does!" Simple! I truly understand when people are weary of the huge marketing splash that accompanies popular materials. However, I for one don't want to miss the forest for the trees, as it were. I thought it an excellent book on different modes of dealing with change! I saw myself - yes I did =>
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Summary: Scurry needs a monitor.
Review: I am immediately put off when someone says, "If you don't like it you just don't get it." No, I don't like it because there isn't anything to "get", except, like many managers, scurry needed a monitor.
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Summary: From the month of babes...
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is a short tale centered around adaptation to change. However, some might dismiss this book because of thin cover or the clidren's fable the message was woven. But, from the mouth of babes... The book challenges the reader to determine how they are flowing with an ever changing environment. Are they looking for new ways to adapt for the betterment of the company, or are they fighting or (worse,) unmining the changes? Does it answer all the questions? No, not all change is for the better, but then, not all managers make decisions that are for the betterment of the company. If they did, Scott Adams would not be making the money he does today. Still, the book is an easy read. I am not an avid reader, but I finished the book in two nights. You might not highly of the "I think I can" presentation, but how far could we progress if we were the "little engine who could"? This book will not be a cure-all, but it would be reminder that change is constant. Being pro-active in dealing with the change will reward you many benefits in the end.
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Summary: Wise advice: If you don't get, you need to keep trying.
Review: This deceptively simple book contains wise and sage advice. Coincidentally, the 3 consultants from my firm working in the same room on an out-of-town engagement had all read this book. My father-in-law, who is an experienced and perceptive leader, sent me my copy--otherwise, I would never have bothered to read a thin little self-help book like this. It turned out to be a profound and extraordinarily helpful book. It is completely consistent with my observations of life--especially life at work. Being in high-tech, and dealing with constant unanticipated organizational changes, I've learned that some people thrive on them and others just become miserable. Which would you rather be, the one who thrives, or the one who is miserable? I know way too many of the miserable ones, and usually, they just don't want to stop being miserable. (hem, hem) I guess it isn't surprising that the reviews of this book are so polarized. Either you get it, or you don't, and if you don't get it, this book would seem pretty trivial. If you think it's trivial, I suggest you try again. Any model is meant as a simplification--a two-dimensional representation of an impossibly complex world. This little book isn't meant to explain all of life, and it isn't an exploration of why change happens. It is merely a recognition that many changes are seemingly arbitrary and our choice is to either respond positively or negatively. If this book has a fatal flaw, perhaps it is that the story isn't convincing enough. For anyone who has learned to accept change with humor and detachment and chosen to view unanticipated events as a challenge, this book may just increase your personal belief that you are well-adjusted. That seems harmless enough. On the other hand, it is easy for me to envision many of the people whom I see stubbornly refusing to accept change also being totally unmoved by this book. In other words, if you can see it, you don't need to read about it, and if you can't see it, reading about it will be aggravating. My advice is to try. Accept this cheese metaphor as just one way to view certain aspects of life--as a very healthy way to approach events that may otherwise be interpreted as negatives. Change is inevitable. Sometimes you do have control over change, and that means you have protected your cheese. Sometimes, that cheese just goes away and it is not within your power to prevent it. But you always have control of your own attitude, and that is the real lesson of this book.
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Summary: Well Written
Review: Who Moved My Cheese? is a book that is direct and to the point. It is written in a story form that allows the reader to reflect on his/her own role within the story. This is a story about each of our lives and ability to change. I saw myself in each of these roles at various points of reflection upon my own journey through the maze of living. I also recommend: What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living by Samuel Oliver
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Summary: the emperor's new fromage
Review: I take my hat off to Spencer. He's pulled off a remarkable feat in peddling a simple piece of common sense as a profound zen-like parable and selling it by the truckload. Personally I think there is rather more insight and a whole load more fun in any of the Dilbert books (which have the added benefit of not being written in a moronic Jack-and-Jill style). But still, if you are not in the habit of regularly evaluating your personal situation and this accessible and easily digestible book is what it takes to get you to wake up and look around, as would appear from the more positive reviews, then he deserves credit for taking the effort. I was inclined to give a couple of extra stars for the sheer positivity, but the final "discussion" was so excruciatingly trite, that the curmudgeon in me knocked them off. I also sincerely hope that some vile marketing mind isn't at this moment planning the associated merchandising (just wait for the who-moved-my-cheese coffee cups, 365-cheese calendars, and the inevitable "mouse" mats).
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Summary: Good, easy to read, interesting book
Review: I thought this was a great book - it spoke to me about finding my passion and putting all my energy into that. It also spoke to me about how we need to not settle for second best, to have faith in what we are doing, and how we can find bigger and better things in life, if we only keep searching!! and not rest on what we have already accomplished...
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Summary: If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Review: For those that thought that the 60 minutes was a waste of time - I encourage you to "waste" the 60 minutes for yourself, make your own judgement and read an excellent book based on change. The mice and the little people in the book represent different personalities of people. Whether we want to accept it or not, we are all mice in a maze looking for the cheese.
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Summary: Fun little guide
Review: Yes it's a short book, but it's fun to read. It has quite some wisdom in it, although you don't want to take it too serious. Most of us have problems with change and it usually starts when our schedule becomes messed up and lunch is delayed for an hour or whatever. This little guide gives some advice how we all can adapt to these little and maybe bigger changes in everyday life. It's well worth the read. Recently I also read a book that contains a valuable chapter on 'Trying to change the Unchangeable' and as a whole is a very helpful guide to a fulfilled life, which is Dietmar Scherf's "I LOVE ME: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression."
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Summary: "Who Cut the Cheese?" because this one stinks!
Review: Some sharp marketing kid fresh out of college gets 5 stars for figuring out how to sucker businesses into buying this piece of trash in bulk. My company held a contest to get us to read this pathetic excuse for a management/self-help book. Halfway through the book I fell asleep because Dr. Johnson managed to write in monotone and drag out what should have been a more effective story. The big print and big margins should have been a big clue that this book was a big waste of money.
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