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Summary: Best thing my old boss ever did
Review: My former boss---a micromanager and institutional employee at a large corporation---gave this to all of his employees, including me. He thought his supervisors would think more highly of him if took a tangible step that suggested he encouraged free-thinking, risk-taking, and innovation within his department.Reading it made me realize I had been wasting my time working for such a Do-Nothing. So I quit and started my own business, and now make three times what I did while working for him. Shortly after I left, my old company got rid of all their dead weight, outsourcing 700+ jobs to India. My old boss was one of those let go. It's been a year and he's still looking for work, although he is making ends meet selling home audio equipment during the evening. I realized (after I bought a 48" plasma tv from him...the price on those things has really come down!) that he was having trouble coping with change. So, I gave him back the copy of "Who Moved My Cheese". I hope it helps him as much as it helped me.
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Summary: Probably really written by the Soviet government in 1947
Review: GREAT BOOK... if you're an obediant, simpleminded, powerless, helpless mouse whose only hope to survive lies in trusting, obeying, and never questioning the nameless, faceless, godlike bosses who cynically manipulate you while despising and laughing you at the same time. Read it if you're completely satisfied with the cigar-smoking CEO eating steak and lobster while you live on nothing but cheese. Yes, this is a metaphor applicable to all kinds of life situations. It will help you accept and adapt to change if: -- you're a new kid in a rural high school who's being humiliated and terrorized by groups of large, stupid jock straps to impress their girlfriends with how a "real man" behaves. -- you're a small, timid woman being beaten to a bloody pulp by your redneck husband because you questioned his drunken, contradictory orders. -- you're a wrongly-convicted inmate in a federal prision who was sold by a psychotic murderer to a sexual sadist in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Instead of buying Who Moved the Cheese, either read Nietzsche or listen to some very different metaphorical self-help lessons in "audio-books" from Peter Townsend (in the following order): "Helpless Dancer", "I've Had Enough", "We're Not Gonna Take It", and finally, "The Rock". The way to adapt to an increasingly unendurable metaphorical maze is to SMASH A HOLE IN ONE OF THE WALLS, burst into a blindingly beautiful world you never even knew existed, and discover that there are more available things to eat than cheese, more enjoyable things to do than eat, and more rewarding things to be than "resigned".
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Summary: This book is a JOKE!!
Review: The point of the book is don't resist change. Learn to adapt and move on. Good. But, it also says don't think about the change. Just absolve yourself of any moral responsibility and go with the flow. Not Good. The model employees are rats with no emotions; they just do what they are supposed to do. Great if you're a manager, not if you're an employee. It's books like these that lead to Enron disasters...managers figure out how to make more money, employees just do as you're told!
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Summary: FANTASTIC!
Review: What a great book! What a great way to see your job and how we truly are even in real life. Read it, learn it, and laugh at yourself. It will change the way "change" is looked at.DJ
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Summary: Light, yet deep
Review: This is a short parable with a long lasting lesson. Read the thing in a day. Reminds me of another book, short and sweet but long and deep, "The Little Guide To happiness". It too was this kind of book. I read that in a day too. And glad I did.
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Summary: looking for answers?
Review: People are looking for answers to improve how they feel about their lives. This book is not the answer. You will learn more about human nature and empathy, and change by reading a hundred or so of the reviews of this tiny (tiny ideas too) book. Good Luck finding your answers to life's big questions.
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Summary: A piece of cheese
Review: Contrary to what many negative reviews said about it, this book does not compare us to mice, but to dwarfs; after all, the hero of the parable is Haw, a dwarf that learned to "adapt and enjoy the change". Hem and Haw are two dwarfs looking for cheese in a maze, and eventually they find a place that seems to replenish itself with cheese from one day to the next. Haw starts agreeing with his pal Hem, who is confortable where he is, and both do not understand when the cheese disappears and get frustrated and a little confused. Then Haw asks himself how could he be any worse if he just went looking for another piece of cheese through the labyrinth again. Little by little he starts convincing himself that to invite change, to not be afraid of change, to visualize your goal (the new chunk of cheese), and to be fueled not by fear but by hope of achieving what you want is the best thing one can do. Hem stays behind, moaning and moping, complaining of the unfairness of the situation, that he deserved the cheese, that he won't like any new brand of cheese that Haw may find - that is, if he finds it at all. Of course Haw finds a new place with not one, but many types of cheese, but by now he has learned not to trust permanence, and actually enjoy change. He even tries to convince Hem to give up the expectation that the old cheese will reappear, and to come along with him to this new section of the maze that has all this cheese, but alas, Hem does not change, and stays where he is. What the book does not state, in any part of it, is that changes may be a bad thing. Any normal human being knows that. Sometimes even when we adapt, and try our best to accept that things change, we still get failures. And sometimes things should not be adapted, because that will make the situation worse than it is. Sometimes is best to stay put, sometimes is best to see that things are changing, and adapt intelligently. Should that be obvious? Apparently there is a whole book about change that states from beginning to end that change is a good thing, period, and that book sells I don't know how many millions. I dont know why I'm writing this review, since there's already 1131 reviews posted, and I doubt if this is going to be of further help. Also I've never written any reviews, but this book was so bad that I felt impelled to say something. If you've read so far it means you know how to read a text longer than two sentences. It should permit you to skim this 92 pages of poorly written prose, few-words-per-sentence sentences, all-around easy to read and easy to understand piece of s... without much trouble, but then again, if you want to avoid the trouble, read paragraph two for a synopsis and go browsing for better books.
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Summary: Good If You Need a Nudge in Your Life
Review: I read this book when trying to decide whether to stay in my current job with a company. The company was undergoing major changes/cutbacks, and it would've been easier to stay put and see what happened. After reading this book, it gave me the impetus I needed. I decided to be proactive rather than reactive, and found another job with another company in my area. Within six months my old company had sold off that division and my old department disbanded. If I'd stayed, I'd've either had to go through the stresses of unemployment, or accepted moving to another division in another city. In summary, this is a simply-written book, presenting the simple idea that you need to be willing to change and accept change. If you're hemming and hawing (pun semi-intended) about what to do when you're at a crossroads in your career, then I'd recommend reading this book.
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Summary: drivel
Review: This is a book about just accepting what is given, and not asking any questions. It is not about hope, and not about growth. It is about accepting the status quo. Of course managers like it, it tells people to just shut up and be content. It is all beyond your control anyway (so Dr. Spencer would tell us). One star is too generous. Your time would be better spent just taking a nap.
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Summary: Horrible, Horrible, Horrible
Review: Sickeningly trite and condescending. Shame on Dr. Spencer for writing such drivel, and a pox on Putnam for publishing it.
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