Enjoy reading! Scott Korin Don't bother. Unless you are going to check this book out at the library or somebody gave it to you, do not buy this book. It …more Don't bother. It's a simple metaphor written in a patronizing way and using a large font and big margins.
If you typed this out in Word, it would be maybe 40 pages long. Jakey yes because yea an yea. See all 25 questions about Who Moved My Cheese? Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Who Moved My Cheese? Shelves: overblown , nonfiction , shite. Learn to adapt. You're welcome. View all 62 comments. Maybe buy a used copy to help out a local bookshop or library.
Happy to help! You can read this book in about 45 minutes, but it will feel like a week. I think that I would have enjoyed the Spanish version better. I don't speak Spanish. I don't know whether the authors of this book have an employer, but if they do, I would recommend a "random" drug test.
This book is about a team of two mice and a team of two minature exectives who each slide into a pair of size 0. All goes well--until somebody moved the cheese! Chaos You can read this book in about 45 minutes, but it will feel like a week. Chaos then predictably if not hilariously ensues. And that is the intelligent part of the book For the remainder of the book, we get to listen in on a group of friends discuss how the philosophy behind this epic tale of missing cheese relates to their lives.
The members of this discussion group are the type of people for whom warning labels are placed on hot coffee cups. If this half-assed tale of relocated dairy food has any relevance to your life, then there is any number of medications that you should consider asking your doctor about. View all 25 comments. Mar 16, Kate rated it did not like it Shelves: supposed-to-be-deep-i-think , horrid , desperate-attempts-at-self-improvem.
This is a book about victimized lower and middle class mice trapped in a corporate capitalist maze, forced by The Man to scurry around, looking for "The Cheese" salary, K, maybe even decent PPO or HMO. So what are the mice supposed to do? Are they supposed to unionize, or protest the WTO, or elect people who will enforce antitrust laws in this country! Scurry, scurry, little mice! That is why this book is horrid. But I'm not bitter. View all 44 comments. Mar 19, Kevin Fanning rated it did not like it.
If your boss gives you this to read find a new job. View all 19 comments. Apr 30, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: business , 20th-century , philosophy , self-help , leadership , psychology , management , non-fiction. They live in a maze, a representation of one's environment, and look for cheese, representative of happiness and success. Initially without cheese, each group, the mice and humans, paired off and traveled the leng Who Moved My Cheese?
Initially without cheese, each group, the mice and humans, paired off and traveled the lengthy corridors searching for cheese. One day both groups happen upon a cheese-filled corridor at "Cheese Station C.
One day Sniff and Scurry arrive at "Cheese Station C" to find no cheese left, but they are not surprised. Noticing the cheese supply dwindling, they have mentally prepared beforehand for the arduous but inevitable task of finding more cheese. Leaving "Cheese Station C" behind, they begin their hunt for new cheese together.
Angered and annoyed, Hem demands, "Who moved my cheese? After deciding that the cheese is indeed gone they get angry at the unfairness of the situation. Haw suggests a search for new cheese, but Hem is dead-set in his disappointment and dismisses the proposal.
View all 4 comments. Sep 23, Tony rated it did not like it Recommends it for: its author, to be read forever and ever in Hell. It requires a unique sort of demonic skill to take the utterly obvious, lather it with sentimentality, turn it into an animal story, give it a big font and wide margins so that what really ought to be a pamphlet handed out for free on subways becomes instead a "book," and then expect businesspeople to buy it.
Which they did. God help us all. View all 5 comments. Mar 13, Amy rated it did not like it Shelves: non-fiction. However, it was recently recommended to me because I mentioned that I'm not especially enthusiastic about change.
I wish I could un-read this book. I thought it was overly simplistic and rather insulting to any intelligent person. This book contains such clever little proverbs as "He was happy when he wasn't being run by his fears" in other words, just stop being afraid, and you'll be happy.
Ok, good, I'll try that if my car breaks down on a dark deserted highway, or next time my father complains of chest pains. Sometimes you're not supposed to be happy. Sometimes you're supposed to stay alert and guarded, and be ready for action.
The question I wish the author had addressed instead of coming up with platitudes in praise of change is this: What is the balance between working to improve what you have repairing vs. Adaptation and flexibility are all well and good, but sometimes life is a little too complicated to be resolved just by embracing change.
After all, as authors Kathleen and William Lundin said in one of their books "Adapting to a wild leader is like being the fox in a blood-sport hunt. You may be quick, clever, and nimble, but you'll still be killed at the end of the game. View all 7 comments. Aug 03, Archit rated it it was amazing Shelves: ebooks. Change or get run over! A great many people have recommended this particular one to me; I did not read.
We might be the most evolved species on the planet but sometimes we do over-process. Adapting and forecasting change lurking around the corner is mark of sheer greatness.
The best quote perhaps was curbing the wrong interpretations that might be drawn out : that you should try behaving in a new way in the same relationship. Do not change the person but innovate your habits. If you love your part Change or get run over! If you love your partner, let them know about it in a million different ways that change everyday. Novelty is what keeps things moving. The story is perfectly written and takes up one hour of your life but may just give you a knowledge of a lifetime.
I can see these terms being recited to people in the company I work or the football teams I lead. And I quote, "Keep moving whilst riding a bicycle. Else you fall down. Sniff the changes and scurry to action. And of course, Be Worldclass like the very book itself. Verdict : Spencer Johnson hits the bulls-eye in a 60 minute book.
View 2 comments. Jan 30, Ben Briggs rated it did not like it Recommends it for: nobody I like. Silly little self promoting book. First third is a bunch of people sitting around talking about this new silver-bullet omniscient business book that changed their lives.
And finally the most insulting part is the last third where that group of high-potential future cult followers reassembles and discusses this epiphany of a book that they have read and they all agree to buy copies for all of their fri Silly little self promoting book. And finally the most insulting part is the last third where that group of high-potential future cult followers reassembles and discusses this epiphany of a book that they have read and they all agree to buy copies for all of their friends and coworkers - as I recall, one guy was going to buy cases of the book for his whole dept at work.
Of course the last page is the coup de grais - an order form for more books! Oh pooh, now I have gone and done what Johnson did - gone and wasted a whole lot of words when those 5 in caps above would have sufficed nicely. Oct 23, Manny rated it liked it Recommended to Manny by: Yirlean.
Shelves: linguistics-and-philosophy. Dear Mr. Christ, I was at that meeting you held the other day up on the hill - I guess you wouldn't remember me, I was at the back of the crowd. Anyway, I really liked it. I gotta admit, some of it kind of went over my head, but it was a great speech.
I particularly liked the part with blessed are the cheesemakers, I thought that was inspired. Most people never think about cheese, but I think about it all the time. Well, like I said, some of it was hard to get, but I talked about it afterwards wit Dear Mr. Well, like I said, some of it was hard to get, but I talked about it afterwards with my friend Brian and he explained it to me. Then I liked it even more! Yeah, that is a very cool message about living in the moment and not overthinking things.
You have something there. Adapt to change quickly! Dwelling in the past will only lead to misery and frustration, so instead focus your energy on adjusting your lifestyle and mindset to the new order of things.
Change and enjoy change! According to Dr. Focus on the good in these new experiences instead of dwelling on what you might be losing and you will find many new doors opening up! Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old Monitor change! When you stop being afraid you feel good Face your fears!
It is also the case that every reader has different needs, and that a fable allows each individual reader to take from the book a message that is uniquely tailored to that person.
But there may be another reason. In the field of business, there is rarely an insight or idea that is entirely new. And yet, many great ideas that have been around for a long time have still not been transformed into action by those who lead or work in organizations.
What this speaks to is the difference between making a good idea available to an audience, and articulating it in a way that inspires the audience to run with it. A good business fable may do a better job inspiring us to act. When a book has sold over twenty million copies, due respect for the opinion of its readers creates an obligation to explain why someone would seek to challenge its central message. I hope to do that, briefly, in these opening pages.
The real answer, however, lies in the fable itself. This book was written—and is meant to be read—as a stand-alone entity. Not surprisingly, however, I've been asked whether it was crafted as a rebuttal to Who Moved My Cheese?
WMMC , or as an extension of it. The answer is both. For those who are having a hard time dealing with big or even small changes in life, WMMC is a compelling read. The book is a useful reminder that we need to accept that change happens, that it may be beyond our control, and that we need to find the strength to move on and adapt. This message is neither incorrect nor trivial. But it is incomplete. Even when adaptation appears to be the only viable option, we should do more than blindly accept—and eagerly adapt to—change.
We should seek to understand why the change has been forced on us, how we might exert greater control over our lives in the future, whether the goals we are chasing are the correct ones, and what it would take to escape the kinds of mazes in which we are always subject to the designs of others. In other words, effective adaptation is not enough for success or happiness. Then there are the ways in which the message of WMMC is not simply incomplete, but dangerous.
Perhaps we should think twice before telling others that they would be wise to immediately embrace their limitations. Perhaps we should not suggest to would-be innovators, problem solvers, entrepreneurs, and leaders that instead of wasting their time wondering why things are the way they are, they should simply accept their world as given. Perhaps we should stop telling people that they are simply mice, chasing cheese, in someone else's maze.
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