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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (Hardcover)
by Spencer Johnson (Author), Kenneth Blanchard (Foreword)
Textbook Details
* Hardcover: 96 pages
* Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons (September 8, 1998)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0399144463
* ISBN-13: 978-0399144462
* Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
* Shipping Weight: 8 ounce
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Textbook Description
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.
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 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.
Book Review of Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
I am afraid of change. I do not embrace it. This book helped me to understand that I have what it takes to face change without succumbing to my fears. I will still have those fears, but they will not be able to overwhelm me unless I let them.
It was a very inspiring book. It is written like a “children short story” and can get kinda cheesy itself, but it has deep meaning behind it.
The reviews of this book seem to be split right down the middle. I side with the multiple-star reviewers. Yes, this is a simplistic book, but it is deceptively simple. And when you actually practice the principles that are described in this parable – accepting what is, taking appropriate action, and thinking positively – your life can change for the better in a profound manner. I have often been told that my own book is the spiritual side of this same story. Well, now that I have read Who Moved My Cheese?, and I like it, I’m going to take that as a compliment!
This book was #1 for a reason – it is simple, easy to understand, and makes us confront our fear of change head on. Most of us are faced with change that was caused by forces outside our control, and yet, the book reminds us that we need to adapt, take control, take action and embrace the change. It is rather simplistic, and certainly leaves something to be desired in the change management department. But having just experienced some of the most challenging times in by 15 years in business, the book provided a little pick me up and a reminder that we need to keep moving. A good read for those displaced during the current economic challenges as well, it is a reminder that there is something out there – we just need to keep running through he maze. (As frustrating and scary as it may be)
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