Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Who Moved My Cheese? Shelves: shite , nonfiction , overblown. 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: desperate-attempts-at-self-improvem , horrid , supposed-to-be-deep-i-think.
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: self-help , leadership , philosophy , non-fiction , psychology , management , business , 20th-century. 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. But then I said to myself, what is this guy missing? And the answer came to me clear as clear: cheese. Just one single mention, and do you know, Brian couldn't even remember that bit.
So, I hope you won't find this presumptuous or anything, but I wrote a longer version, playing up the cheese and making it more, you know, business-friendly. I've attached a PDF and I'd love to know what you think! I look forward to seeing you again. Your friend, Jesus View all 30 comments.
Oct 05, Otsu yee rated it really liked it Recommends it for: someone who is willing to look at themselves and decide how they feel about change. When my boss first gave me this book to read, I was definately in place where I had no interest in even knowing what my attitude was towards change.
After taking an hour to read the book, I found it to be ridiculous and that it didn't apply to me at all -- "I had always been an advocate for change, what the hell was my boss trying to tell me? To my surprise, because I was actually looking for help with regards to moving my people forward and helping adjust to the changes that were happening around them, I found the book to be more than helpful.
I recognized that for the longest time, I was pretty closed minded and was definately going to die with the cheese if I didn't start embracing change and the outcomes it brings. I also recognized that I had a sniff, a scurry, a hem and lots of haws running around my team.
With that knowledge, it helped me focus on how to manage them better which delivered better results from them and also made them happier employees. Way too cheesy I couldn't resist. While this was probably revolutionary at some point to some people It's like self-help for middle-graders. Basically, we've got ourselves a cheesebuster story, about Mice and Men maybe Of Mice and Men was the original inspiration to compose this pamphlet? Q: But Cheese never reappeared. The sooner you find new Cheese.
And that you are rewarded with it when you go past your fear and enjoy the adventure. This is a book about how two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two miniature humans named Hem and Haw that's right are trapped in a maze that serves as a metaphor for the inherent restrictions and viccisitudes of our lives. One day some invisible force beyond their control takes the cheese from a sector of the maze, sending our mice and little people looking for more, if, indeed there is anymore to be had.
Sniff and Scurry, we are told, have the right attitude because "they keep life simple Hem and Haw, like too many humans, we are told, over-think things and fixate on their past comforts and expectations and spend too much time stewing over the unfairness of their loss of food rather than fearlessly getting out there and looking through the maze for more.
That question is never answered. Nay, it is, posits this book, a completely unimportant and irrelevant question to ask, because, fellow bitches, the system is how it is, it's gonna stay that way, you can't do a fuckin' thing to change that and it's just too goddamned bad if you don't like it, because your cheese is going to be stolen and sent to South China and that's that.
So stop bellyaching about jobs and health care. Just get yourself rich with stinking piles of cheese, or just shut up about it Another key question that is not asked is: "Who designed, built and maintains the maze and whose interests does that serve? But, according to the book, such things are not only outside the realm of questioning, but are irrelevant.
The very idea of changing or creating a more equitable system is simply beyond the pale. You won't be the master of your own cheese, suckers, so be happy with what you can get.
Those who take the cheese always know better. In this version, Hem and Haw and Sniff and Scurry notice their cheese missing and, after looking for two years for no cheese dispensaries and finding themselves at the end of their weeks of insufficient government-issue unemployment-benefit cheese rations, decide to put Hem and Haw's human smarts and Sniff and Scurry's uncerebral pluck to new uses and ends.
Since cheese is the goal, or the ends, and since the ends justify the means, they decide to figure out who is taking their cheese, prevent further cheese-moving shenanigans, and keep those tasty fromage comestibles for themselves. Thinking "outside the maze", they decide that having their cheese taken away arbitrarily--especially by the one-percent who already own more cheese than the other 99 percent of cheese-eaters combined--is not the kind of change they will accept, and instead of being on the receiving end of change decide to mete out a little change of their own--for a change after all, who says that change always has to come from "above," from outside?
Why not from below, from the bottom up? Deciding not to take it anymore, the plucky mice and men donned commando gear, staked out the various points of infiltration, and with their cache of weapons including Molotov cocktails, took out the greedy cheese-hoarding scumbags.
No cheese was stolen thereafter. But who produced the future cheese? After all, there were no more job exporters I mean, "job creators.
And there was cheese for all. View all 9 comments. Dec 09, Tanu rated it it was ok Shelves: reviewed , psychology , non-fiction , philosophy , business , self-help. It was though. The author shows using a small story about how life can change suddenly and how one should adapt to those changes. The author of the story has mentioned that the cheese in the book represents anything a human strives for. It could be money, fame, reputation, happiness, success, achievements, or anything else.
If you have trouble adapting to new situations and fear change you should read it. Apr 13, Diane rated it did not like it. The writing is terrible, the message is oversimplified and the font is gigantic an effort to pad the book out to 90 pages, I think.
And the intro and conclusion are just a marketing ploy to encourage managers to buy lots of copies to give to their employees. This book could be read in 20 minutes, but I'll save you some time and tell you that change will happen in your life, and you have to deal with it. The end. View all 3 comments. Can't believe it took me only about an hour to finish the book : Wow, this book is truly what I need right now! Thank you to the author for such an inspiring and motivational story, maybe it's finally time I realise that it's necessary for me to find my own cheese!
Sep 06, Tharindu Dissanayake rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites-self-improvement. But the very quick time required to go through the book shifted my opinion drastically, in that, this is indeed one of the most clearly written books on the necessity of adapting and enjoying the change and the importance of it.
To me, all three parts of the book were important, and "a change imposed is a change opposed. To me, all three parts of the book were important, and helped fine-tune the self interpretation I made for the second part. I don't think the book is so successful only because it delivers the message clearly and concisely but also because it adds a lot of humor to the subject with those unique characters, which gives the reader an opportunity to understand the message in an objective yet relaxed way.
Jan 14, Nancy rated it did not like it Shelves: self-improvement. If you receive this uninspiring, revolting piece of trash from your employer, start looking for another job -- the end is near! Change is inevitable, but it doesn't mean workers should sit back and accept everything corporate America dishes out.
View all 22 comments. Feb 26, Cecil rated it did not like it Shelves: any-fool-can-write-a-book. This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson will show you how to: Anticipate change; adapt to change quickly; enjoy change; be ready to change quickly again and again.
Discover the secret for yourself and learn how to deal with change, so that you suffer from less stress and enjoy more success in your work and in life. Spencer Johnson. His works have become cultural touchstones and are available in over forty languages. He died in July Johnson has the rare ability to be interesting, provocative and succinct.
My admiration is complete. Search books and authors. Buy from…. View all retailers. With over 2. Also by Spencer Johnson. Praise for Who Moved My Cheese. One of the most successful business books ever Daily Telegraph Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking It leaves you feeling upbeat, and excited, and ready to go out and find your own cheese. Better Business A firm favourite with businessfolk Daily Mirror highly influential Financial Times magazine Designed to help people thrive during periods of change Sunday Times A motivational book to help you deal with change in your life Guardian.
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