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"Littlepeople and Mice"
I am somewhat interested by the characters in this book. A quick read that tells a story about human reluctance to change.

"happiness is for everyone, and change is always difficult to deal with"
Written for the company development plan, this book has helped to save many an individual that I know, including myself from falling under the heavy weight of change.

Using cheese as a metaphor for happiness, it makes sense that if we were mice it would be difficult not to be affected by the loss of our beloved food.

Life is fluid and most people find this inconsistency unsettling. I found this book most helpful in the approach it takes to changes in our lives and would want to share that with as many people as I could.

"Are you ready to change?"
If you have trouble with change you will like this book because it will force you to think about why change is such a problem to you and then, once the awareness strikes, you can change and deal with change more effectively.

I also like The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book as a change primer, and, moreso, as a book that showed me how I can be more effective personally and in my relationships with others.

Oh, as for parables, the only other one I like besides the Cheese is Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results. It's a better read than Cheese and it's lessons are no less powerful.

"Rumor has it..."
...that the reason this book is a best-seller is that companies about to lay off lots of people are buying it in bulk to distribute to those on the way out, in the hope that it'll brainwash them to the extent that they won't go postal and return to their erstwhile workplace with AK-47s.

Sounds likely to me.

"Good for something..."
It has been well documented that the people in this book are appalling stereotypes of average-Joe workers. Whose instinct is to moan about things that are out with their control rather than do something about it. I won't add to this by pointing out how offensive this is again.

Sod it, yes I will!!

I was one of those people who came across this book when the company I worked for bought thousands of copies and gave them out to people during an endless run of re-orgs. No doubt expecting us all to think "Ahh-now I get it, we have no rights. We should be like brainless animals and follow the commands of our betters". At the time the company weren't so much 'Moving The Cheese' as having "The Cheese" continuously flown around the world, attached by a long string to the back of a blind Stork. Occasionally, you would see "The Cheese" fly by the window on the 19th Floor.

Incidentally the HR Director who thought this was a great idea also thought that "Big Brother" (before the reality shows began) was a good thing. Unveiling a new coaching initiative with the slogan "Big Brother is back". When I challenged her on this (pointing out that Big Brother was a symbol of a totalitarian regime who tortured and killed anyone who even thought of standing up to them) her response was "But they (meaning the staff) won't know that". So her credibility was already gone by the time of "The Cheese" fiasco.

I'd like to say that the workers rebelled against the ideas that this book put forward and stood as one against the lacklustre management of the company while simultaneously burning the HR Director on a stack of Who Moved My Cheeses.

Or that the workforce upped and left (inspired by the book) and the company was forced to hire Mice, who were completely unable to operate even the simplest telephone system or grasp the concept of video-conferencing (but were cheap and had surprisingly good timekeeping and attendance). Thus sending the company share price plummeting and forcing the Management team into hiding in Rangoon.

Unfortunately, as you've probably guessed, everyone just shrugged their shoulders and started looking for Jobs on Monster.com. As is common in these cases, the really talented people got jobs elsewhere no problem and the company was left with the poor few who couldn't.

I was one of the lucky ones who got out. And now just a few years later this well-established Company is gone.

And the moral is - if your employers ever give you a copy of this book shove it up their a** and get the hell out of there!!

So as an indicator that you work for idiots.....it is good for something.


 

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"Common sense wrapped up in a children's story...for professional adults.", I share most of the sentiments other negative reviewers have expressed about the book. It's insulting to every employee's intelligence (if they have any), although it was a nice way to waste several hours (it took me about 15 minutes to read the book, but we spent hours having meetings and group talks about it led by management). Just thinking about it now makes me glad to be out of the corporate realm and in a small private office.

Everything in this book should come as common sense to any employee worth their paycheck. And it's not necessarily the right way of going about things, although having a positive attitude always helps you out regardless of what situation you're in. But blindly following change does not always make you a good employee, and that's where this book steers its readers wrong. Having respect for your supervisors is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't question their ideas & motivations, or provide feedback on the changes they've chosen to implement. Believe it or not, this can be done respectfully and intelligently - this book makes it seem as if any protests you make or concerns you express just translate to 'heming and hawing', so quit your whining and get back to work. This kind of black and white outlook damages professional credibility and relationships and really just makes the environment an unpleasant one to work in.

That said, I would love to see what the writers from The Office could do with this material.

"I'm Surprised!", I am surprised that more people are not raving about this simple book that uses simple concepts that can be so amazingly powerful. Recognizing how we deal with change, and really understanding what that means in our lives, can be one of the most powerfully moving experiences, and life altering events.

I was so impressed with it at work, I made my whole extended family (even those in Iran) read it. They all enjoyed it, and some even made significant changes in how they look at their lives as a result.

How do you handle change, and what can that mean for you? Read the book and find out - and share it with friends and family!

"Who Moved My Cheese", This is a great book. The seller was very quick to mail my order and the service was excellent. A+++++++

"GREAT eye openner", The book opens up awareness of possible change(s) that are needed in ANY organization. GREAT eye openner

"Who moved my cheese", I received the book very quickly, I needed it for school and got it in time. It was like new if not new.



 
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"A good thought provoker", An excellent book that makes us think the way we are now and helps us move forward. After reading, I was laughing at my self and was comparing myself with the 4 characters in the book. A book worth kept for any time reading.

"My wify's little boook review", "Who moved My Cheese." This is a very interesting book which touch base on the basic human ways of dealing, reacting and processing life's changes.

The book introduce to us simple character that act as a form reaction so to say. In life we will run into complication. In life we will encounter unexpected change if we don't already know that there are molds growing. In life we will allow fear to inhibit our senses of the need to let go of our comfort zone and venture.

To venture out and seek something new, better can be very uncomfortable to somebody who feel as if everything is a okay or is working for them. We don't want to have to struggle to an unexpected zone because fear tells us maybe there is nothing out there better than what we already have.

Fear becomes the dominate self criticizers.

We have been program to go through steps in our lives. From not knowing as infant...the ability to crawl, walk then run; to going through a programmed chapter in our lives from elementary, high school, college, grad school and then getting the big job. What else should we do. Have we not found the "big cheese?" Yet it is perhaps this way of comformity is what traps us in the many form of unhappiness we face.

We try to be content with our jobs, our relationship, our life but in doing so we have harness this comformity along with fear of decomforming. We want to look for "new cheese," becuase the "cheese" we have now is either molding or just not being the "cheese," we thought it would be.

It is not the idea that if something is great we should disregard it and look for something better. It is the idea that we should open our minds and think outside of the box. Maybe the journey may be long, maybe we will only finds crumbs, and maybe we will find a whole new batch of cheese that is better tasting than the ones we have. The idea is our life does not just end at one station of cheese. Living is believing in yourself. Finding that letting go of your fear and learning that worries and trouble thoughts we have can confine us and stop us. The matter can easily be dealt with a simple laugh and a strong mindset that there are better things out there. Life does not end at one place.

The book taught me the easiness of life. We should not hold too much value in any aspect of our life because life is unpredictable, things change. What we should do is be the best and the happiess in our moment of comfort but fear not for changes or sell ourself short by stopping. "Never give up" life is about happiness and where can we find happiness? It's not in finding "New cheese." It in the process of regaining ourselves in every aspect; from confidence to freedom.

"Who Moved My Cheese?" Does that question really need to be asked? Maybe the cheese need to be moved.

-TK

"The Mystery of Change", As a corporate director of human resources, it is a good day when I find a book that can actually be put to good use in our managerial training. This is one of those books. In fact, it is one of the rare books that weeks and months after using, I still find that managers refer to "cheese" when dealing with change management problems and solutions.

While change certainly means different things to different people, the basic underlying theme is the same. The world as we know it will cease to exist and how will you respond.

I find that the really good management books will usually use a story or parable in getting the point across. This is far superior to dry, straight away lecture. The stories make visual connections and these stick with adults. I highly recommend this book for anyone in management. Whether first line supervisor or CEO.

Michael L. Gooch, SPHR, Author of Wingtips with Spurs

"Skeptic Impressed", I was required to read this book for a college class. One of my classmates and I were skeptical of how this book could be of any help, since it is not the scientific literature we're used to reading. I was pleasantly surprised. The simplicity of the story allows the reader to easily apply the information to his/her-self and quickly realize some possible bad habits.

I will surely be able to apply the lessons in this small book to my professional career as a personal trainer and co-owner of L.E.A.N. Wellness Center in Mesa, AZ. (www.getleanstaylean.com)

"for simple-minded slaves, not educated free people", The book opens: a group of high school graduates get together to discuss problems of changes in their lives, and one tells a story that helped his company. It is a children's story about two mice and two "little people" who live in a maze and have to adapt when the cheese in the maze gets moved to a new location. The mice look for new cheese immediately, but the little people over-analyze the situation ("his complicated brain with its huge belief system took hold") until one decides to leave to look for new cheese. His attitude starts to improve, he finds new cheese, and he writes notes on the maze wall for the little person who stays behind. These notes are called The Writing On The Wall and tell the person who stayed behind what he's learned. The book closes with the graduates discussing how the story relates to their own lives.

This is a terrible little book that I am embarrassed to say was assigned reading in a college course. There are a constellation of belief systems that revolve around the relationship of valuelessness, lack of personal investment, spontaneity, and happiness. These include systems like Buddhism, Jean-Jacques-Rousseauianism, materialist nihilism... Who Moved My Cheese? falls in this constellation. The message of the book is that the only thing in life is following "the cheese," and you'll be happier if you don't get invested in wherever you're currently getting "the cheese," so you can immediately go to where "the cheese" is without looking back.

Of course, we know of another tradition of change, represented by Lot's wife, the Exodus, the diaspora, etc. But that tradition tells us something very different about change, suggests differentiating important from unimportant, and that there are times it is necessary to resist instead of "embracing change."

Nietzsche tells us that Judaism is a "slave religion," but the truth is that "the cheese" philosophy is the true slave religion. It's no mistake that this story takes place in a maze, and the heroes are mice. The message is that life is just a giant maze, we're all no different from mice, and the sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be. This is a book for people who don't believe in self-determination and are just cogs in a giant business machine.

At the end of the book, one of the high school graduates says that his family-owned chain of mom and pop stores should have been sold off so that he could build a giant supermarket department store to compete with the new "mega-store" in town. He rejects the idea that there might have been something worth saving, not to mention the possibility of saving it through ingenuity. His conclusion is to just see which way the wind is blowing and follow along.

Another of the high school graduates says that her son was a star swimming champion but that after the family moved for her husband's work, he learned to enjoy skiing instead and now lives happily in Colorado. But if you want to know what the "embracing change" and "enjoying new cheese" philosophy has done to families, you should read Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before.

The phrase The Writing On The Wall comes from the story of King Belshazzar, who took sacred cups from the Temple in Jerusalem and used them to drink in honor of the gods of gold and silver. A ghostly hand appeared in front of him and wrote on the wall "mene, mene, tekel, parshin," meaning that Belshazzar's kingdom would come to an end. That night, Belshazzar was killed.

The author, Spencer Johnson, seems to think that The Writing On The Wall means we should all just go along with whatever life brings, but there are really two other meanings to the story. First, would Belshazzar have been killed if his people had decided not to believe the writing on the wall? Second, there some things in life more important than gold, silver, or cheese. To this book I say "TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."

 
 
 

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