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From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.
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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--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," 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, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical 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
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Reviews
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Reviews
| 186 of 215 people found the following review helpful:  Very Inappropriate and Pointless, By GrigLars "griglars" (Fairfax, VA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Hardcover) I found this book to be yet another one of those books churned out by the machines of middle management, and handed down to the employee. Most of these books BECOME best sellers because they are sold in bulk to corporations for pennies on the dollar. Notice how this book has "companion" pieces of merchandise, like games, a web site, and training seminars? They are selling a complete product line to ineffective management, and look at the book as more of a large business card/advertisement.This becomes evident when you read the stories and parables that surprise me that it took two authors to write only 96 pages. The writing is haphazard, poorly edited, unhelpful, sends mixed signals, and boils down to a rather insensitive "Things change, get used to it, change or you will die. Now keep moving." I would never give this to an employee, because that would be like giving an employee a stick of deodorant and wondering why they've stopped talking to you. This... Read more 318 of 377 people found the following review helpful: Lemmings, hurtling over the cliff's edge, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Hardcover) This is the WORST business book I have ever read. The intent behind it is valid, but the content can be summed up in a few statements:Change will happen If you don't change, you will die (figuratively or literally) Watch for signs of change, so you can be prepared to change, too Change is good, and can lead to something better There. Do you feel like paying me [good money] for that priceless knowledge? This is a parable, which means they dressed up the real content by writing a goofy story about mice and little people, taking up more pages so they could justify the cost. Unfortunately, they could only drag the story out so far (how many times can you read, "and he kept walking and looking for more cheese"). The book was still only about 20 pages long, too short for a hardcover, so they added a second story to frame the parable itself. The second story is about a group at a reunion that talks about the book. Even THAT doesn't add enough pages to... Read more 1,360 of 1,632 people found the following review helpful: Worthless, This review is from: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Hardcover) The unbelievably large number of people who think this is a good book is very scary. I hope these people are not important decision makers. Everything bad that can be said about this book has been said before, so I'll just compile a "Best of" list for you. (By the way, in case you're wondering, "Dr." Johnson's degree is in education.)Regarding management and corporate American in general Regarding the intellectual level of the... Read more |
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