Who Moved My Cheese?

an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life

by Spencer Johnson

Hardcover, 96 pages

English language

Published Feb. 20, 1998 by G. P. Putnam's Sons; 1 edition (September 8, 1998).

ISBN:: 978-0-399-14446-2
OCLC Number:: 38752984

(3 reviews)

With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable. Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change.

When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millenium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too.

Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The …

Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to become topics for discussion and individual interpretation.

Who Moved My Cheese? takes the fear and anxiety out of managing the future and shows people a simple way to successfully deal with the changing times, providing them with a method for moving ahead with their work and lives safely and effectively.

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ssweeny reviewed Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Silly and obvious but there are some good nuggets in there.

3 stars

I can see why this book has the reputation it does. It's very simple and beats you over the head with its main points. If my boss gave me this to read before a giant restructure I'd probably launch it at his head.

That said, some of the bits about overthinking changes and fretting so much over how a change might negatively affect you did resonate with me, and I recognized myself in there, so maybe thinking of this silly tale will help with that.

The whole thing is around 100 pages. Get it from the library, take an hour to read it, try to get from it what you can.

Oh, skip the final "discussion" session. It's short, but it feels like a really bad after-school special about business.

dsctm3 reviewed Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

A short, but rich worthwhile cautionary tale for all.

5 stars

A good life lesson regarding adapting to change and letting go of a a complacent, comfortable situation in hopes of avoiding change. The story reads like a children's book, but the book explores the story and gives several real life examples of applying the lesson to all stages of life.

Weldys Santos

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June 4, 2015

Subjects

Change (Psychology)