Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
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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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For review title, couldn't decide between "This book is cheese" or "An hour of my life that I'll never get back"
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I, like a number of other readers, do not understand how this book came to be one of the best-selling management books of all time. Having read a number of books on management, leadership, etc., I find myself compelled to disqualify positive reviews of this book as possibly being submitted by people who are not well-read nor have much experience in the management/leadership arena.
The book is overly simplistic, condescending, painfully obvious, predectible and unimaginative. You wuold have to be a terribly unreflective manager who is wholly lacking in introspection to have your eyes opened by this book. However, I suppose that if you are a person lacking in such capacities, then please do read it! If you are an employee and your boss gives you this book, s/he is basically trying to tell you that you are a deadweight whose going nowhere in your company unless you get with the corporate program.
The book is very short so I guess the most I can say for it is that at least when you waste your time reading it, you won't be wasting too much of it. Do yourself a favor and put your hard-earned money towards reading something of substance on leadership like Collins' Good to Great, Rima's Leading from the Inside Out or any of Greenleaf's various works on servant leadership.
(By the way, when I wrote this review there were over 900 'used' copies available from independent booksellers starting as low as $.75 -- prospective buyers beware -- there's a reason that there are so many of these available at such a low price.) |
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