Product Description

Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spirital peace of mind. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson, will show you how to anticipate change, adapt to change quickly, enjoy change and 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. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #528 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 94 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
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, non-analytical and non-judgmental; they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "little people", 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, co-author of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organisations--anywhere where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and sceptical 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, Amazon.com

Review
A motivational book to help you deal with change in your life --Guardian

Designed to help people thrive during periods of change --Sunday Times

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 Mirrorr

Highly influential
--Financial Times magazine

The Mirror
"Its message about opening your mind to change stays with you long after you have finished it."

Customer Reviews

Entertaining Lesson.
A short story about 2 mice and 2 'little people' in a maze looking for cheese.

Of course 'cheese' is just a metaphor for what you want in life (such as money, the ideal job), and the 'maze' represents where you are looking for what you want (such as your family, an organization). As the story goes, one of the characters (Haw) learns to deal with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze wall. In this way, the reader gets the main points in the book and can learn too how to deal with life's changes.

A little book that is big on wisdom, many should find it entertaining and useful. Also recommended The Sixty-Second Motivator -another short story that is to the point and practical.

Should be titled: 'How self-help books got a bad name'
As were many others, I was given this book by a senior manager. He maintained that he was very impressed by the book and it's message.

I found it trite, over-simplistic and intensely irritating.

Not, I hasten to add, because I cannot deal with the concept of change but rather due to the writing style of the author - who seems to aspire to be the new Dr Seuss.

If I had wanted to read a childrens' book I would have bought one!

The Emperor's New Clothes
I was given this book to read by someone after rebelling at work against change for the sake of change. While the very basic story is designed to help someone understand that when change happens one must be able to adapt, it does not explain why the change is happening.
It starts with a class of students having a similar problem to myself and then the lecturer tells the story. After the story they all discuss what they thought of it and what they got out of it, and one of them says that what it means is that you do not go along with the change you must find something else to do.
I have seen this story before when I was a little boy. If you don't agree with everyone around you because that is what you have been told to believe, then you must be an idiot. Surely this is breeding automatons, not enquiring minds that challenge.