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Utter Drivel, 4 Feb 2005

This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Paperback)

This banal piece formed the cornerstone of a seminar I attended 3 years ago at my company's annual exercise in self-justification of change for change's sake. Despite the changes made the company's performance continued to decline. As a consequence one year later redundancy beckoned, which was certainly a change I was more than willing to embrace wholeheartedly in the form of early retirement and the opportunity to get away from such nonsense which has plagued business for far too long.

To say this book is simplistic is an understatement. Change is a necessary part of life, but so is the facility to question and debate the necessity/value of the change. To promote the concept that any change must be embraced as good is irresponsible. It is however very much in line with modern management thinking and, as they're the ones that buy this tosh to inflict on their staff, Johnson's hardly likely to bite the hand that feeds him by producing a rational critique on the subject. Instead he delivers an exercise in stating the obvious which is so one-sided as to be worthless.

As an antidote to this why not invest in Francis Wheen's excellent "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World" wherein the likes of Johnson are treated with the contempt they deserve. It's available for only 40p more than this rubbish , will take you considerably longer to read and, hopefully, will truly make you think for yourself.

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Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life 0091816971 Spencer Johnson Vermilion Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Welcome Utter Drivel This banal piece formed the cornerstone of a seminar I attended 3 years ago at my company's annual exercise in self-justification of change for change's sake. Despite the changes made the company's performance continued to decline. As a consequence one year later redundancy beckoned, which was certainly a change I was more than willing to embrace wholeheartedly in the form of early retirement and the opportunity to get away from such nonsense which has plagued business for far too long.

To say this book is simplistic is an understatement. Change is a necessary part of life, but so is the facility to question and debate the necessity/value of the change. To promote the concept that any change must be embraced as good is irresponsible. It is however very much in line with modern management thinking and, as they're the ones that buy this tosh to inflict on their staff, Johnson's hardly likely to bite the hand that feeds him by producing a rational critique on the subject. Instead he delivers an exercise in stating the obvious which is so one-sided as to be worthless.

As an antidote to this why not invest in Francis Wheen's excellent "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World" wherein the likes of Johnson are treated with the contempt they deserve. It's available for only 40p more than this rubbish , will take you considerably longer to read and, hopefully, will truly make you think for yourself. Garrett "onlyaride" 4 Feb 2005

Overall: 5

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Initial post: 17 Dec 2007 19:00:36 GMT

G. W. Dixon says:

....and who's the one made redundant?

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Zawiah Saki says:

Excellent review. I had a similar experience. The department I was with began to change and panic spread. A course was set up called, 'Dealing With Change'. I attended and found that it really should have been called, "Accepting With Grace Whatever Management Imposes'. When I suggested that one way of dealing with unwanted change was to move on, the facilitator sneeringly reframed this as, 'running away from change'! He seemed incapable of thinking outside the box of tricks he had been provided with. Around that time, people began to wave the cheesy book around like Trotskyite students during the sixties waving 'The Thoughts of Chairman Mao'. When redundancy inevitably loomed, the cheesy bookwavers shrieked far louder than those of us who made a positive move to get out and embrace the change that we had created ourselves.

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