Product Description

An A-Mazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life. Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It 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. Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are `little people' - beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw. `Cheese' is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it's a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, good health, or spiritual 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. 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: #147 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-04
• 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

Daily Telegraph
`One of the most successful business books ever'

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