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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 155.24 EAN: 9780399144462 ISBN: 0399144463 Label: G. P. Putnam's Sons Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: September 08, 1998 Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons Studio: G. P. Putnam's Sons Editorial Review: Amazon.com 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--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 Product 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Who moved my cheeseI received the book very quickly, I needed it for school and got it in time. It was like new if not new. Rating:  - Littlepeople and MiceI am somewhat interested by the characters in this book. A quick read that tells a story about human reluctance to change. Rating: - happiness is for everyone, and change is always difficult to deal withWritten 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 ... Read More Rating: - 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 ... Read More Rating:  - 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. |
