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Loading... Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and…by Spencer Johnson
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This little story basic premise is - Change is inevitable. Live with it, Use it + don't push against it. Nothing too earth shattering. After rave reviews from a coworker, I decided (against my better judgment) to read this book. Reading it reminded me just how much I dislike warm and fuzzy self-help books. 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. A must read for everyone. 0.097 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0399144463, Hardcover)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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The story is simply an allegory for the way the simple and complex parts of our brain process change, and how we can learn to adapt and look forward rather than backwards in our lives. It is, however, a bit TOO simple to be applied to every problem in life, and should definitely be taken with a large pinch of salt. (