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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life | 
| Author: Spencer Johnson
Publisher: Vermilion
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprinted edition
Pages: 94
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0091816971
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780091816971
ASIN: 0091816971
Publication Date: March 4, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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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 They've said it all before ... BUT October 3, 2008
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
OK, so all the reviewers have dissected this little book to infinity and beyond. But its very much worth reading, and won't take you long, and might just give you that little push to get out of the rut and take a wider prespective.
Ideal for people who live in prisons and want to break out (metaphorically speaking)
 Entertaining Lesson. October 2, 2008
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
A short story about 2 mice and 2 'little people' in a maze looking for cheese.
Of course 'cheese' is just a metaphor for what you want in life (such as money, the ideal job), and the 'maze' represents where you are looking for what you want (such as your family, an organization). As the story goes, one of the characters (Haw) learns to deal with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze wall. In this way, the reader gets the main points in the book and can learn too how to deal with life's changes.
A little book that is big on wisdom, many should find it entertaining and useful. Also recommended The Sixty-Second Motivator -another short story that is to the point and practical.
interesting but... September 29, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
There's something undeniably a little silly about this book - a parable about cheese! But once you've got used to the idea it does have some resonance. It teaches us something about how to deal with change and move out of our comfort zone to accept the new. It's slightly difficult to understand why this book is so successful though - surely there's nothing particlularly new about this message. Other self help type books I have found more rewarding recently are Making Time by Steve Taylor and Tolle's The Power of now. Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control It
Cheese - Intriguing Metaphor September 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Cheese - this is the most intriguing metaphor I've ever seen! I still have no idea why Spencer Johnson used that, but it seems to me that he used Cheese as means of social skills or flexibility. I guess we must get rid of our old cheese to adapt to any changes. Otherwise, we will be likely to be left behind or social loners.
According to this book, 2 mice, Sniff and Scurry were sophisticated enough to get new Cheese. On the other hand, 2 Littlepeople, Hem and Haw got agitated because the Cheese at Cheese Station C, where they felt comfortable, disappeared out of the blue. At first, they gradually ran out of their energies, not knowing what to do next. However, Haw began to think twice as he wrote the messages on each wall for Hem. Therefore, Haw got back on his feet again and found New Cheese at Cheese Station N, where he could be friends with Sniff and Scurry! What happened to Hem? He was so stubborn that he dwelled on Cheese Station C, where no cheese existed.
Unfortunately, nobody can tell whether Hem would change his mind. But everybody in this story would feel happier, if Hem decided to get New Cheese instead of sticking to Old one! Anyway, I'd say no one can promise what you have is always useful forever, because everything changes in the world.
 The sickness of our time June 18, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
To reduce philosophy and literature to pieces of garbage is the main characteristic of our time, a dark age in belief. Absolute individualism, freedom, egocentricism are destroying the Western society have already show serious signs of all kinds of sickness. And this book and the phenomenon it created is nothing new, but really old: that people without direction but full of illusion have every reason to cheer about, when they see something like this to further draw their hearts to the darkness that refuses the light. I wonder how long this darkness and sickness will last.
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