book review of who moved my cheese by spencer johnson

Managing in a Time of Great Change is an exciting tool for navigating the rapids-strewn course that will take our economy into the new century. Manager certainly struck a resonant chord in its day because it appealed to the sense of urgency managers were feeling about the need to be far more effective far faster. Johnson, an MD, created a clear, simple, and focused package ruthlessly engineered around the theme of rapid effectiveness.

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Change occurs whether a person is ready or not, but the author affirms that it can be positive. His principles are to anticipate change, let go of the old, and do what you would do if you were not afraid. Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. 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. Change often helps people become better people in life. I strongly recommend that everyone shpould read this book.

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Haw uses the question ?What would you do if you weren't afraid?' as his guiding principle. Progressively overcoming his fear, and then positively enjoying the adventure, he eventually finds an even greater store of cheese. Haw finally realizes the old cheese isn't coming back, and heads back out into the maze. After searching for a while (and writing a bunch of aphorisms on the maze walls) he finds a new cache of cheese and resolves to not take so long to start looking next time one dries up. Haw eventually realizes that searching for cheese is better than living in a cheeseless life. He jumps back into the maze, finds more cheese and proceeds to be more alert.

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Accepting change involves overcoming the fear of the unknown, a dread that is at the very heart of the human condition. Accept that we couldn't do anything about it? If you can get past the incredibly, um, cheesy premise of the latest incarnation of the popular yet controversial WHO MOVED MY CHEESE books, there might be a few answers in store for you.

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Perhaps instead of worrying about the business associate he left behind, our protagonist could have met new business associates in the maze, with the common cause of finding the new cheese. And then the new littleperson in charge could have assembled a task force to go out and hunt for new cheese. Perhaps, one day, I will have my own useless business book and it will sell a million copies, and Spencer Johnson will let me roll around naked in his pile of money, and he will roll around in mine. It really all depends on his hygiene.

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But 12 million copies? The only amazing thing about this book is that it has sold so many copies in the first place. But for these people, freelancing may well be as inhibiting as the corporate treadmill they tried to leave. But whatever it is, we hope your children will enjoy this kids'' edition of the story, which has been created especially for them, and that you will all find your own New Cheese--and enjoy it!

But when real problems come up, they aren't always necessarily as easy to anticipate. Even once we become aware of a problem, as complex and emotional beings, humans often don't even know where to begin when identifying causes. But the current book seems to have perfectly captured the anxieties of traditional businesspeople as they try to cope with a rapidly mutating economy. Not that his message is always welcome: On Amazon, one reader reports that getting this book from your boss is like being handed a bottle of Scope. But each character has a slightly different approach to life, and their individual approach defines what happens to them when the cheese runs out.

But when The Cheese Hits The Fan, so to speak, Sniffy and Scurry don't agonize or organize, and they sure as hell don't litigate. Pointedly, they also don't write messages on the maze walls about their ordeal, either [read: they don't write books, maybe?]. But there is no looking back for those who sniff and scurry towards their goals. But a line must be drawn somewhere concerning office romance when one is already married.

But, of course because of my fear of confrontation, I did not. Instead, I send him Christmas and birthday cards each year and pretend it never happened. But the mice aren?t really mice they represent people - not specific people but types of people. Four little mice named very appropriately Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw, between themselves represent the human race and their quest for "success".