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Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
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Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
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Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life

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Who Moved My Cheese? Is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life -- whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind. And "The Maze" is where you look for what you want -- the organization you work in, or the family or community you live in.

The characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the maze walls.

When you come to see "The Handwriting on the Wall," you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.

Written for all ages, the story takes a little over an hour to listen to, but its unique insights can last a lifetime.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 1, 2006
ISBN9780743563871
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Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life
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Spencer Johnson

Spencer Johnson, MD, is one of the most admired thought leaders and widely read authors in the world. His books, including the #1 bestseller Who Moved My Cheese?, are embedded in our language and culture. Called "The King of Parables" by USA Today, Dr. Johnson is often referred to as the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work. His brief books contain insights and practical tools that millions of people use to enjoy more happiness and success with less stress. Over 50 million copies of Spencer Johnson's books are in use worldwide in 47 languages.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The mouse parable gets a little annoying after awhile, but the message is a good one: be willing to adapt or you'll become extinct just like the dinosaurs. People who refuse to learn how to work on computers should read this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Thought provoking for sure, but the story itself is set up to prove the point of the story. Is the author's premise still valid if the resulting outcome was reversed? For his premise to be true, it has to be correct regardless of the actual outcome, which is unpredictable in reality.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A great book that illustrates how to navigate change in your work and personal life.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    this is a great book wich ispired me more than any other book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Really quite a good little read. A good testimate to attitude and change. If you can get by the simplicity of the book it could really help your outlook
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    If I hadn't read so much hype about it before I actually read the book, I might not have been just a little disappointed with it. The book is cute, humorous, quick and easy to read. But somehow I got the feeling that life is just not quite so simplistic as the author would have you believe. The author does present a common-sense approach to change, and some ways of coping with it when it occurs unexpectedly in our lives. If you are already doing fine with the changes in your life you don't need the book. Or, maybe I'm just in denial. Either way, the book's an entertaining read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A must read for everyone.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The subtitle ‘An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life’ is a little spurious. This is a simple book that will take less than one hour to read from cover to cover. On the basis of a word count, or if you’re looking for a management book with answers, this will score very poorly. However that’s not what the book sets out to do.It presents a rather whimsical story of life for two mice and two small people in a maze. The maze represents the environment for change with unknown futures and the accompanying fears. The four characters are used to represent different attitudes to change. The mice Sniff and Scurry represent the fairly straight forward reactive approach to change. As mice they’re not credited with great intelligence but when their source of cheese is moved, react by setting off to find new cheese supplies. The little people, Hem and Haw, are credited with the intelligence of men which in many ways provides a hindrance to their ability to change. When their cheese is moved their ‘intelligent’ response leads to a wide range of reactions including denial, recrimination and resentment which disables their ability to set off to seek new cheese. Gradually Haw comes to terms with the need for change and the contrast with Hem is used to illustrate how fear of change can be disabling and how this fear might be overcome.This simple story illuminates a range of responses to change and provides four different characters to illustrate these response types. These types are inevitably presented in simple forms and can’t deal with the complexity of real change. That isn’t the purpose of the book and is indeed its strength. The four characters provide a vocabulary that many will find useful in describing their, and their colleagues, reaction to change. The approach taken to make that vocabulary accessible is to make the story simple so that the book can be quickly read and passed on to spread the word. The book is so easy to read that I can imagine it being passed on to a colleague to be read in the next hour and moving through a team in a day, rather than languishing in an in-tray for three months awaiting spare time that will never arrive.If you approach this as another pebble to be tossed into the pool of your ideas. It’s a small pebble but for many a very useful one. It is very accessible and might provide new thoughts, images and vocabulary with which to describe and most importantly share ideas on change. It doesn’t have the answers but no book ever can. People have the answers and the aim of this book is to encourage them to set off to look for their answers, their new cheese.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A short and clever book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book shows a really good life lesson and is one of my favorite books of all time. It is very short though.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An excellent allegory for change in the workplace, and in life in general. A simple tale that people of all ages can follow and understand.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An interesting look at how change affects us and those around us, somewhat simplistic but it does emphasise embracing the new and leaving what's not working behind, whether that's in life or work. It doesn't really look at some of the complicated reasons people don't move with change and it paints anyone who doesn't as backward and not embracing change, but sometimes change for change's sake isn't necessarily a good thing.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    One of those "must read" (as they say) books that's a quick read. I did like it, but it wasn't overly profound or groundbreaking. It had good messages and good cliches to follow. I'm sure it would benefit many people, though.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    read this in Dutch. A real quick read. Fable centered around different ways to deal with change. Cheese is a metaphore for the things you find important. How do you behave when your cheese is moved?
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Written by Spencer Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager, this enlightening and amusing story illustrates the vital importance of being able to deal with unexpected change. Who Moved My Cheese? is often distributed by managers to employees as a motivational tool, but the lessons it teaches can benefit literally anyone, young or old, rich or poor, looking for less stress and more success in every aspect of work and life.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Everyone seems to rave about this book. After reading it, I'm not sure what is so great about it. The parable seems to indicate we shouldn't overanalyze things and that we should always be aware of the next best thing. While I agree that some things in life shouldn't be overanalyzed, I don't think being aware of what may be the next best thing (such as a house, a job, or spouse) is so wonderful. Those people often reach for those things without thinking of the consequences such as an unaffordable mortgage, the unbearable commute/hours or the broken-hearted spouse.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Who Moved My Cheese is a parable about change and our feelings when change occurs. The story is told by four characters who live in a Maze and look for “cheese”. Cheese is what we want in life: a career, family, money, a new home or car, etc.There are two mice: Sniff and Scurry and two little people: Hem and Haw. These characters represent how we respond when change happens. Do we sniff out change early? Or do we scurry into action? Do we deny change when it happens? Or do we learn to adapt to change as we accept it may lead us to something better?As the story unfolds and the reader learns how each character reacts to change, it’s natural to begin thinking how one responds to change. As one character successfully deals with change, he begins “the handwriting on the wall”. Through this, the author sheds light on how one can adapt to change easily.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A good reminder on how we should view change, consider risk, and avoid the mistake of assuming things are secure.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    It's cheese. Every wants cheese, be prepared to look for better cheese. The end. There's a good 1000 word essay hidden in this book somewhere.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Overated parable for simple minded managers.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Coincidentally, the 3 consultants from my firm working in the same room on an out-of-town engagement had all read this book. My father-in-law, who is an experienced and perceptive leader, sent me my copy--otherwise, I would never have bothered to read a thin little self-help book like this.It turned out to be a profound and extraordinarily helpful book. It is completely consistent with my observations of life--especially life at work. Being in high-tech, and dealing with constant unanticipated organizational changes, I've learned that some people thrive on them and others just become miserable.Which would you rather be, the one who thrives, or the one who is miserable? I know way too many of the miserable ones, and usually, they just don't want to stop being miserable. (hem, hem)I guess it isn't surprising that the reviews of this book are so polarized. Either you get it, or you don't, and if you don't get it, this book would seem pretty trivial. If you think it's trivial, I suggest you try again. Any model is meant as a simplification--a two-dimensional representation of an impossibly complex world. This little book isn't meant to explain all of life, and it isn't an exploration of why change happens. It is merely a recognition that many changes are seemingly arbitrary and our choice is to either respond positively or negatively.If this book has a fatal flaw, perhaps it is that the story isn't convincing enough. For anyone who has learned to accept change with humor and detachment and chosen to view unanticipated events as a challenge, this book may just increase your personal belief that you are well-adjusted. That seems harmless enough. On the other hand, it is easy for me to envision many of the people whom I see stubbornly refusing to accept change also being totally unmoved by this book. In other words, if you can see it, you don't need to read about it, and if you can't see it, reading about it will be aggravating.My advice is to try. Accept this cheese metaphor as just one way to view certain aspects of life--as a very healthy way to approach events that may otherwise be interpreted as negatives. Change is inevitable. Sometimes you do have control over change, and that means you have protected your cheese. Sometimes, that cheese just goes away and it is not within your power to prevent it. But you always have control of your own attitude, and that is the real lesson of this book."
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Great little book - very gentle confronting and helpful reminders to those fearful of change
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I've heard a lot of amazing things about this book, but after having read it, I don't understand the hype. The book uses large font to pad the page count, and the whole story took me about twenty minutes to read. I didn't see anything profound or life-changing in these pages.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    The section on the Wikipedia entry for this book labeled Criticism starts "Some managers are known to mass-distribute copies of the book to employees, some of whom see this as an insult"... Patronising, poorly written and full of laboured analogies. The vast number of trees used to produce the many, many copies of this book that have bafflingly been sold is shocking to think about.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This simple way of looking at the different ways one can respond to change was interesting and could surely jumpstart important conversations about meeting the challenge.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I read this at the request of my son, who also read it recently. It wasn't particularly ground breaking for me - but I can see how it may have been for my son. It's a book that may be known to some of you as it is often used in training at large corporations. Basically, change happens, and how you deal with the change will determine the level of success that you can achieve. Can you adapt, or will you keep doing the same things and hope for a different outcome? Maybe we should have Congress read it?
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Trite secular parable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good Motivational book. Yes, very simple and straight forward, but one can learn lessons and a bit about mindset reading through this very quick read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Dealing with change is part of life. Spencer Johnson uses a modern-day parable to encourage flexibility, and thinking outside the box when faced with the inevitable in your work or personal life.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Required reading for all the managers at my last job. Everyone else got to see the short movie. Yuck. Another bit of obvious, repackaged, self-help pap for the politically correct, corporate scene.