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Summary: Not exactly motivational
Review: I understood the concept of the "Cheese" and I don't think I'm above adapting to change, but that is just it. The book doesn't really give you ways of dealing with change, and it doesn't really motivate you to change. It basically tells you "Change or Die, it's your choice". It's basic point is what everyone knows and hears day in and day out and that is that "Change is Good!" Thank you - next book please.
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Summary: Now they're cutting the cheese...
Review: The guys who wrote this claptrap are probably pigging out right now in some expensive New York restaurant, shaking their collective heads that people (a lot of people) actually went out and made their pithy rumination a best seller, and them even more rich. I recently went to a board meeting and, in horror, saw this book on a chair, brought in by someone wanting someone else to notice how "in tune" she was with cutting-edge Business Thinking, that it could bestow The Answer to the board's problems if only they would heed The Call. Hogwash. In many cases, resistance to change is good (I hope every person who left secure jobs for loser dot coms is listening) and it is sometimes the most virtuous thing a person can do in the face of cheese being held by ignoramuses. I say fight for the cheese! The kind of people who read this stuff are sitting ducks, followers all, uncreative and without guts. A better book to read on ensuring a successful and rewarding career is "The Management Principles of Attila the Hun." For all of our sophistication, we are bound by certain social bonds and expectations that never change and never should. Getting what you want is primal. It needs to be attained primally. Confrontation is natural.
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Summary: Good, but borrow it if you can instead of buying it.
Review: There's a small dinnertime story in this book which is valuable for most prople who are going through change in their lives, be it in the home or on the job. However, there is not much meat and the book is way overpriced for the amount of material that it presents. This also sounds a lot like "corporate brainwashing". Ie. if your boss needed you to accept a change, he might give you this book. Mr Johnson presents the picture that we are all "mice" running around in a maze where someone else/inevitable situations move your goals/money/cheeze around. Luckily I borrowed the book at a library and did not buy it, cos I would have regretted buying it. I also asked my wife to read it. Recommendation: It is a good book. Read it with your mind open. Borrow it if you can.
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Summary: Cheesy, Yes. But a great lesson taught.
Review: This book makes for a very quick and insightful read. The subject matter presented effects all aspects of life from the workplace to home-life and the story that Spencer Johnson brings to life teaches some very obvious, yet often forgotten lessons.
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Summary: Too simple minded
Review: This is another one of those management buzz things. It spend too much time stating the obvious and never addresses why the cheese needs to be moved at all. Don't expect any great revelations here.
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Summary: I Now Know How To Move My Cheese
Review: This is a fantastic boo, not only about the business world, but also about your personal life. It has many different applications in your day to day work environment, home, family and friends. I would highly recomend this book for it simplicity as well as its applicability when it comes to work, life and relationships. If you have ever done the FORUM, read this book.
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Summary: Life Changing Cheese
Review: Reading this book has changed my life. It is so simple yet so profound. The author has taken mice and little people and turned them into icons. Anyone who is dealing with change, fear, relationships, success, or failure should read the book. It will take you 30 minutes to an hour to read. If you don't like it, you haven't lost much. If you like it, you'll realize that the time you spent will be well worth it and much more.
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Summary: I Liked It! I Really LIKED It!
Review: I feel badly for all those reviewers who got no joy from this little book. Yes, there is nothing new here -- check up regularly to see if things are changing, embrace change, etc. etc. But I liked Michael's use (pg 85) of the characters to motivate his workers. I am imagining myself enjoying new cheese!
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Summary: One Star Because They Won't Let Me Put NO Stars!
Review: One can almost hear the ice tinkling in the glasses at management cocktail parties, as six-figure-makers stand with jutted jaw discussing what an "amazing" (a word the authors have chosen to place on the cover!) management book this is (not). "Why, it's the perfect tool we need to persuade our ignorant, rigid, non-thinking, resistent-to-change employees to see the light and do what we say," one might say. Here we go again with the paradigm shift parable, repackaged this time as a children's story (for adults! What next? Saturday morning cartoons?) This book is the perfect example of what is wrong with America: We are constantly being spoon-fed the rediculous and far too many are swallowing, making yet another foolish fad a national craze (after all, is this not the way we measure success?). Did anyone notice that the cheese-seeking authors strive to bolster their perceived importance of this book by not only hawking their previous accomplishment on the cover -- but they also dupe the public with a gold ribbon-style graphic which is obviously intended to lead the buyer into thinking this must be an award winning book! Yes, Ken and Spence, change CAN be good. Like when you get to update your sailboat to a yacht or buy that larger property in the Hamptons as the result of another bestseller. But to middle America (us heathens who refuse to search out "new cheese" without first asking why) change is very often not good. I congratulate you both for a stellar job in masterful manipulation of corporate America. You know just what buttons to push and how to package the age old "Change and Live/Don't Change and Die" rule of business. You must have sold a lot of books and made all kinds of cheese with your efforts, fellas. Whoever paid a dime for this book must be asking the real question:"Who STOLE My Cheese?" And the answer is, "Those two big RATS, Spence Johnson and Ken Blanchard."
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Summary: Only book that I have ever returned.
Review: This book left me saying, "IS THAT IT"! My first error in buying a book without reading the reviews first. I assumed it was going to be something great! I was wrong! I think alot of people made the same mistake as I did, much to the delite of the author. The reason the book has sold so well can be summed up in four words, "The One Minute Manager". "PURSUE, ADAPT AND OVERCOME", I think I learned this more from an old Clint Eastwood movie. Save Your Money!
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