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Summary: Common sense for the masses
Review: This book focuses on the simple notion of embracing and expecting changes in our lifes or risk unhappiness. The analogy used to convey the book's message, albeit effective, was a little childish. I also didn't really appreciate the book's closing sales pitch, asking the reader to share the book/message with others. On the otherhand, this quick-read stated it's good-natured purpose in an organized and easy-to-remember.
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Summary: Common Sense At Best
Review: I read this book not knowing what to expect, I'd never even heard of it before. My husband got it for me as a gift. Anyway, it was interesting and entertaining enough to keep my attention, however it was predicatable and uninspiring to say the least. It was filled with common-sense metaphors that we can apply to our daily lives. At best, I can see myself perhaps using those metaphors in my day to day routines, and for that it was worth the [money], but not much more than that.
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Summary: Get it - read it - think about it...
Review: This book is built as a faiy tale discussion. Although I did not particulary care about the discussion ("...yeah, that is true..."), the story is very good. Simple language, simple analogies, no references to the fads of todays business.
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Summary: The Epitome of Corporate Pandering
Review: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is the epitome of no-fault corporatism at its worst, and the fact that so many people see the message as harmless is frightening. Yet the fact that this book finds such purchase in Human Resourse departments is not surprising.The central theme of the book is that you are a rat in a maze. While that is quite an insight into how companies that give out this book see their employees, it is not wholly accurate. Throughout the course of this "book," it becomes clear that the theme is that you are more stupid than a rat in a maze. What the book supports is that workers run around like good little mice and find whatever cheese the company sees fit to give them. The company has no responsibility at all to their employees to provide any kind of security, and if the cheese that they deign to give their employees moves, it is their worker's responsibility to keep up or literally perish. The unthinking constant activity of the mice is heralded as the ideal of behavior. In other words, shut up, do what we tell you as fast as you can, and adapt to our changes, or perish. Change is obviously inevitable, but this book completely ignores your ability to affect change yourself. It is always the "other" moving the cheese instead of moving the cheese yourself. Self-will and determination are completely thrown out the window. It also completely discounts the capability of thinking about the situation to effect positive results; only unthinking reaction is held up for praise. Anyone who holds this book up as a laudible reflection on change is completely ill-adjusted for the real thing.
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Summary: Not a bad book, but horribly misused
Review: This book is worth reading if you're a cubicle slave trying to figure out why your bosses seem to have lost their minds. "Who Moved My Cheese?" has been a plague and a pox in my workplace for several months now, because a "change is good" fad has consumed all of the management. I'm not averse to change on general principles, and I welcome changes that improve my working conditions, pay, or efficiency. However, change for the sake of change is a BAD thing, and that's what's happening in my office. The upper management has been keeping "the cheese" moving like a carrot on a stick, usually for no reason that makes sense to the people who actually do the work. (Pardon the mixed metaphor.) Learning to deal with change in a constructive manner is a necessary skill in today's job marketplace, but management should realize that constantly changing things around just to be able to beef up their performance reviews with new processes that they "implemented" causes a great deal of stress and insecurity in the lower ranks. All in all, I wish this little book had never been written.
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Summary: Who Moved My Cheese? - The Story Behind the Story
Review: Everyone in my organization at work received a copy of "Who Moved My Cheese", and we were "encouraged" to read it. The book itself isn't good or bad...it's a little parable about change. Unfortunately I read the foreword of the book by Kenneth Blanchard who wrote "The One Minute Manager", which coincidently I also had to read for work. One particular quote in the foreword really offended me, "While in the past we may have wanted loyal employees, today we need flexible people who are not possessive aboout "the way things are done around here." First of all loyalty and flexibility are certainly not mutally exclusive. Frankly I'd take a loyal employee over a flexible one any day of the week...that loyal employee will do somersaults if he has to to make the company a success. The theme of the book is that change is inevitable...I don't think most people have a problem with that concept. However, the book implies that you should go along with the change no matter what. I think that that's the book's major flaw...it never really acknowledges that all change is not good. Sometimes things change in ruthless, inhuman ways, and you have to resist that kind of change.
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Summary: An Insult to the Printed Page
Review: Has American business truly stooped to the level of thinking this is a landmark book for management? The characters, plot and storyline went beyond "simplistic" and into the realm of infantile. I found this book to be preachy, judgmental, and insulting, with no practical guidance for managers dealing with change in their daily lives. Advice such as, "Keep Looking for New Cheese" (or whatever it was) is about as helpful as that ubiquitous admonition, "Just Do It". Both were designed for commercial purposes, and both are severely lacking in any practical applicability. Honor your innate intelligence and boycott this ten-minute read.
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Summary: I sniffed it and it stinks
Review: I learned more from "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" and that info fits on a poster. If you're older than 25 and haven't yet reached the conclusion this "gem" of a book could better have conveyed in a tri-fold pamphlet, you're unlikely to ever get it. However, you will most likely be content to spend the rest of your life nodding affirmatively and grinning like an idiot. You can enthusiastically spend your days in positive pursuit, challenged by the opportunity of the hunt for your name on your company's most current org chart or giddily accept the new "electron conveyance charge" applied to your cable bill. It's all good.
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Summary: Excellent management tool
Review: 94 pages, large font, can be read in 15 to 20 minutes. This easily read book provides a fantastic allegory about attitides to change. I bought a copy for the entire management team (20 people) in our company. We used it to promote discusion about organisation changes and to assist with changing the organisation culture. Highly recommended but buy the soft cover edition.
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Summary: Your guide to manage change
Review: I have used this book to manage change in my company... and it worked just fine. It is amazing the results if you distribute this book among the people in your team that is afraid of change. I used this book also with very good results in my family environment. This book is a journey by itself and help you to enjoy the journey of change.
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