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Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice, non-analytical and non-judgmental; they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "little people", mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
Dr. Johnson, co-author of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organisations--anywhere where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and sceptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: the cheese runs out. --Lou Schuler, Amazon.com
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A motivational book to help you deal with change in your life --Guardian
Designed to help people thrive during periods of change --Sunday Times
It leaves you feeling upbeat, and excited, and ready to go out and find your own cheese --Better Business
A firm favourite with businessfolk --Daily Mirrorr
Highly influential
--Financial Times magazine
Designed to help people thrive during periods of change --Sunday Times
It leaves you feeling upbeat, and excited, and ready to go out and find your own cheese --Better Business
A firm favourite with businessfolk --Daily Mirrorr
Highly influential
--Financial Times magazine
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book says almost nothing,
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This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Paperback)
I'm astonished that this book even got published, let alone became a huge success. It says almost nothing.
It is so general that it's neither right nor wrong. It reminds me very much of the way that horoscopes work - if you make it general enough, it applies to everybody but there is no specific advice which is of any use. It talks about 'cheese' as being a metaphor for... pretty much anything you want really. The basic idea seems to be that if you don't want 'change' (very general again) then you need to change your attitude towards it. No help whatsoever, in my opinion.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A quick way to learn one of lifes most important lessons,
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This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Hardcover)
This book was given to me to read when I was younger - I must have been in my early 20's and going through a very rough patch in my life at the time, and a friend gave me it to read. And I give it 5 stars not because it's a brilliant read, but because of the important lessons it contains and the way it helped me out of a dark place.
It's a very simple book - you'll read it quickly - but it delivers a a fundamental and very important rule in life. That you have to move with change of be left behind. The world changes and we have to change with it - we have no other choice if we want to thrive. Some of the people and reviewers here may sniff at this lesson and say it's obvious - but lots of people don't adhere to this rule and for me it made it clear. No one had taught me that. No one had told me this little nugget of info. But this book did, and for that I'll always be greatful.It is true though, as one reviewer put it, now you've read this review you don't need to read the book - lol. But is cute and quirky and delivers the message in an easily digestible way (cheese pun added and then thought better of and removed at this point). So... Do I still hate it when things change?: yes Do I still moan when new procedures are put in place at work?: yes Do I still hate computers and pine for the slower pace of life before them?: yes ...but now I realise there is nothing I can do to fight the tide and best thing I can do is just get on with it. A great book for teenagers or people going through an upheavel in their life. It's one of those books I'll never forget, but purely for the lesson it taught me.
28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Be in the right situation that applies to the book,
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This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Paperback)
I was compelled to write this review after reading some of the bad reviews for this book. I first read this book about five years ago. I was in a job I hated and lived in a town I hated even more! After reading this book it inspired me to put my flat up for rent and move all my furniture and cats back 'home' to my parents where I felt so much happier. Five years later I found myself out of a job and a bit down in my luck so I re-read the book, and even though i still found it a great book to read I realised that the book did not apply to my situation. The book is about being stuck in a rut and having the imputus to change to get out of it. It's not about confidence and how to get a new job! Hope that makes sense!
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