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Summary: VERY INSPIRATIONAL
Review: Who Moved My Cheese is a very inspirational book for anyone who if faced with an unexpected change in their life. It makes you look at your life alot differently. Are you settling for what is comfortable(old stale cheese), or are you able to move on, accept change, and find fresh new cheese. Are you a "Scurry & Sniff", or a "Hem & Haw" ? Confused? Read the book and you'll be able to answer that question. Very easy read!
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Summary: Oops! We fell for the hype!
Review: My book club, usually an astute bunch, decided to read this book because it was on the bestseller list so long. Big mistake. It was available at our local bookstore only in hardback, so we paid nearly $20. for it--it was discounted a bit, and we like to support our local store on occasion. We felt like idiots--and you'd have to be an idiot to call this book "amazing" and "life- changing." The only life change I experienced was my wallet being $20. lighter. The author should be ashamed of himself, though I suppose he should be commended for coming up with a remarkable marketing ploy. I won't even put this book on my library shelf--and I certainly won't waste a bookplate on it. We will stick with books that inspire, teach, and motivate us from now on. That doesn't need changing!
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Summary: Are you sniffy, scurry, hem or haw?
Review: Actually, none of the above, but I'm afraid that after people read this they will want to name me as one. While the message is simple and important (be ready and able to change), we all cannot be measured so narrowly. We have all been given the gifts of various emotions (including fear), spirituality and rationality to use in our decision making process. It defies logic that we would "strip" ourselves of these gifts and make such simplistic conclusions.What I fear even more is someone concluding that I must be a "hem" or a "haw" if I don't find this book as inspirational and motivational as the author said I would.
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Summary: Its a joke, right?
Review: I think this book must be a hoax. The basic premise is so thin it could have been written in a single page. To fatten the book into handbill size, the margins and type are nearly right for those who won't use their reading glasses and print notes beside their favorite passages. A great book for lazy thinkers and non-readers who want to claim to have read a book.
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Summary: Change is Reality, Deal with It!
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is not a self-help book. It doesn't tell you what to do to improve yourself or your attitude and response regarding change. However, it does give a true view of change and our reactions to it, in a non-threatening, almost comical way. The result is, as the reader, you will be able to understand and accept your own feelings about the change process of life. Change affects everyone. Why not learn how to best deal with it?
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Summary: An eyeopener
Review: I read this book while on a plane from BWI to Moline, Ill. It helped me open up my eyes to what I want out of life and has motivated me to start acting upon it. I encouraged my husband to read it. My husband then gave it to a co-worker who he thought it would help. The co-worker gave it to his wife and now I have lost my book. But I still remember it's point and I am acting on it.
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Summary: Fun & Entertaining
Review: Yes, this book is somewhat over simplified, but as an instructor at a technical college, I constantly encounter people who are so afraid of change that they won't leave school or their minimum wage job to move on to better "cheese." I have found that those most resistant to change are those who are in the middle of change and can't cope with it. Take a lesson from Haw and learn to laugh at yourself, you'll find you cope much better.
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Summary: Mousetrap
Review: This book has been recommended reading for medical practitioners. Guess what? The Cheese moved and their still wondering where the cheese went and when it will come back. I am aware of many people who have gained alot from this book. It isnt anything we dont already know,its simply needing to hear it again or in a new way. I too feel I am adaptable (maybe we all do)and recently I learned more about the cheese. I dont necessarily need to move with the cheese. I dont even want the cheese anymore, I just wanted out of the mouse trap. If nothing else, its fun and a great way to reference change in the workplace place.
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Summary: A good illustration what can happen when change appears
Review: Change happens, but what to do when it happens? Many academic books deal with this question. Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple story about mice and small people in a maze to illustrate what can happen when change (someone has moved the cheese to another place) appears. I read the book in an hour and enjoyed how the author demonstrated basic principles of change in a pleasant way. From a distance, you watch how four different characters handle change. Maybe you'll discover your own actions in one of them.
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Summary: Something to think about
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese" is a great book. I read itthrough work and will be buying copies for myself and my friends. I amsurprised at the responses from [some] that were so cynical...but then again, their characters/behaviors are represented in this book. All of us are in this book. While it is an easy read, it leaves you with alot to think about: 1)Your own outlook, 2)The outlook of those around you (Where are THEY coming from?), and, 3)How you might better deal with the inevitable changes in life (however irritating)- just to name a few. This book also helps you to understand which of these character types your co-workers are, and that helps in knowing how to use your teamwork skills to make your department, business, or life in general, work more smoothly. It also made me realize that some peoples' personalities and outlooks fight change so hard that they might not ever be willing to move along with the team, and while that is irritating to people like me, at least after reading this book I can understand it more and not let it drive me crazy. This book is a simple read. Not alot of words on the pages, but many things to think about. I'm buying a copy for myself because it is a book that you may from time to time want to re-read in case you start to fall back into your regular patterns of perhaps not accepting change so well. It's a cute, helpful book.
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