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Summary: New Cheeze
Review: I think the book was very positive. If you are open to positive thinking. Obviously some reviews have a very negative mind set. My interpretation of the book is that change always occurs. And that you don't have to sit and endure it wondering what comes next. You can take an active part to change what little part of the world you do have control over. Most of the world is controled by the Borg, Upper Management, Corporate Conglomerates, your mother in law, whatever, and you can't change that. You can change how you react to those external forces. You can seek out "New Cheeze". Just opposite to controlling mindless masses - the book suggests that even the tiniest of mice or people have the power to make change work in their favor. So get off your "Somebody is doing something bad to me" chair and do something constructive. Who knows - you might become the Big Cheeze someday.
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Summary: A life long classic
Review: No matter what you do in life this book will help. It is a short read and you won't regret it
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Summary: Simple, yet profound
Review: This is an excellent book. Who knew dealing with change could be so simple? Basically, it says that you have a choice: when change comes, you can (1) jump on the opportunity to change (Scurry), (2) look for a new and better opportunity right away (Sniff), (3) wait a while until you realize that things aren't going to get better in the old situation and then search from something better, learning from your mistakes (Haw), or (4) sit around and do nothing while others get ahead (Hem). It's best just to accept and change, and not overanalyze whatever tough situation you may have encountered. I am very impressed with this book.
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Summary: The perfect lunchtime read.
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson is a light and relaxing read about how people go through the "maze" of their lives. I think the maze is an appropriate image because it suggests that we don't know our course and can find triumphs and upsets at any turn. It also emphasizes that our not liking the way things show up won't make a difference, but that adapting and creating new solutions will make life more fun and a lot easier. Johnson prescribes going forward with intuitive hunches despite the ever-present fear of change in our lives. I'm glad I read the book and that I followed a reviewer's suggestion to read another book as well: "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" by Ariel and Shya Kane. I've read many books that have pointed the way to a great life, but this one went right to the heart of the matter - that trying to fix yourself keeps you stuck in the places you'd like get out of, but getting into the moment will set you free. Don't miss either of these books.
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Summary: Simplifying Change
Review: This book explains the amazingly high speed of change associated with our work lives and the need for looking out for the trend associated with it. It reminds us the need for a clear mission and identification of all changes as steps towards it. While running with the modern life we became comlex thinkers loosing common sense. A basic question of what do I want in my life can solve most of the complex problems.This simple book gives us the message of being simple and realistic.
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Summary: A Brief Parable About Change That You May Love Or Hate
Review: This is an interesting little story about dealing with change. Four characters; Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw live in a maze (anyone's environment). They all feed on cheese at a particular location within the maze ( the cheese represents anything that is important to us, our work, money, lifestyles, etc.). Everything is fine until one day the four characters go to their customary location and discover the cheese is gone. The story explores how the characters deal with the missing cheese (the names of the characters are clues).This may or may not be the best book written on the subject of change, as it is written as a childlike parable. However, I think there is no denying we live in a society in the midst of some very major changes, every bit as impactful and important as man climbing down from the caves and organizing the first societies or moving from farms to the city during the industrial revolution. The individual who can't or won't adapt is in for a rough time indeed! Interpreted from this point of view this book is very timely and thought provoking. I started a small business many years ago and became very successful. The early 90's brought a series of changes which negatively affected my industry's potential market (less cheese available). The past seven years have been spent trying to reorganize life around the last bit of remaining cheese and that was not pleasant. Finally I gave it up (the oilwell went dry and it didn't matter what anyone did. There was simply no oil there!). I now have some new opportunities in my life and things, for the first time in years, feel a lot different. The transition was not necessarily easy (I see myself as a Haw). I have had a personal experience of being affected by change and my conclusion is that the book is correct in it's perspective. Rarely have I seen a book create such a controversy, judging from the numerous reviews in Amazon.com. I encourage you to read as many reviews as you can, as I think they are every bit as entertaining and enlightening as the book. The main objection is that the book is a tool for manipulation and propaganda from corporate America. This sinister policy is designed to pacify the average worker into passively accepting whatever agenda the company has, in order to deprive the workers of their cheese. In cases where that may be true the average worker has no control over this. What they do have is change and new stressors. You may have noticed that some major corporations have also had their cheese moved. The other objection is that Ken Blanchard is taking advantage of us by cleverly, using modern marketing methods, starting a fad (Pokemon for adults?) and charging twenty bucks a pop for a meaningless book. This is one of his many successful books. "The One Minute Manager", one of his other "fads" also received its share of criticism. I have always thought the American Dream was about coming up with a better mousetrap (ha ha). Plainly he knows where the cheese is. Another of Life's Principles says: "If you want better cheese it is always wise to study those who know how to find it!" Enjoy or don't!
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Summary: Cheese is for chumps
Review: This book is a truly great propaganda pamphlet for fat cats who like to play games and torture mice before they eat them. The book helped me realize how great it is to be able to manipulate other people, make them do all the work and all the changing, steal their cheese and then toss them this scrap of a book and say "Deal with it."
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Summary: This book is not as wonderful nor as horrible as "they" say.
Review: This book is getting both rave reviews and ringing denouncements. It deserves both. Anyone who habitually reads business books will find this one to be simplistic and condescending. Of course change happens. Of course we should embrace it. Of course many people don't. There are people who need to read this book, however. We all know people who refuse to accept any change, no matter how small, even if the change is a good one. Resisting any and all change is a waste of time and energy because change is coming; this is just how the business world is (not to mention life itself). You can sit around and complain about it or you can get up and move on. At every job I've had, I've worked with someone who's so angry about the changes going on (if you work somewhere where there's no change occuring, be afraid) that they make everyone around them miserable. But despite their unhappiness, they won't quit because that would be even MORE change. So they just stay unhappy. Great solution. If that kind of person could read this book and really get it, and not just resist the message, then the work world would be a better place for all of us.
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Summary: propoganda
Review: I saw some of the other reviews and then read this book. It is clearly blatant corporate propoganda to be used to manipulate workers to accept whatever the "Borg" deems fit. If you really want a simple good book on the Taoist philosophy of change read "The Tao of Pooh". I work in hitech cubeyland and am fed a continious stream of this dribble. It reminds me of the resistance in Orwell's "1984" that we learn was actually controlled by Big Brother. If you really want to see something good on corporatism check the video "Rollerball" out. The purpose of this book is DARK AND EVIL. This marks the death of the individual. Long live corporatism! Jonathan Jonathan Jonathan!
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Summary: Cheese souffle--a lot of hot air, little to say
Review: I was very disappointed with the book. Though the story/ parable is okay to good, it is made tedious and tiresome by its redundancy. It could have been told more powerfully and effectively in a third of the pages. The formatting/ layout for this book was also done poorly. If I were you I would "Sniff" out something else and "Scurry" to read it.
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