Who Moved My Cheese? 2002 Day-To-Day Calendar | 
 enlarge | Author: Spencer Johnson
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1456 reviews
Sales Rank: 1753138
Format: Box Calendar
Media: Calendar
Edition: Pag
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0740716905
EAN: 9780740716904
ASIN: 0740716905
Publication Date: July 15, 2001
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Amazon.com 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--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," 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, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical 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
Product Description
With more than three million hardcover copies sold in its first two years of publication, Who Moved My Cheese? has become an amazing best-seller, topping the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and USA Today lists. Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening parable about how important it is to quickly deal with change whenever it occurs. The story takes place in a Maze where two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two littlepeople, Hem and Haw, look for "Cheese." Cheese represents what's wanted in life, whether it's a job, a relationship, money, freedom, recognition, or spiritual peace. The "Maze" in the story represents where you search for what you want. It can be the workplace, your community, or your relationships. The Who Moved My Cheese 2002 Calendar, now in full color, breaks the story down into small, enjoyable daily doses. It also includes inspirational quotes, many of them new, from dozens of well-known people, including Albert Einstein, Lewis Carroll, Charles Darwin, Warren Buffet, Omar Bradley, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as Dr. Johnson's thoughts and reactions to those quotes.
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 Littlepeople and Mice October 9, 2008
I am somewhat interested by the characters in this book. A quick read that tells a story about human reluctance to change.
 happiness is for everyone, and change is always difficult to deal with October 8, 2008
Written for the company development plan, this book has helped to save many an individual that I know, including myself from falling under the heavy weight of change.
Using cheese as a metaphor for happiness, it makes sense that if we were mice it would be difficult not to be affected by the loss of our beloved food.
Life is fluid and most people find this inconsistency unsettling. I found this book most helpful in the approach it takes to changes in our lives and would want to share that with as many people as I could.
Are you ready to change? October 2, 2008
If you have trouble with change you will like this book because it will force you to think about why change is such a problem to you and then, once the awareness strikes, you can change and deal with change more effectively.
I also like The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book as a change primer, and, moreso, as a book that showed me how I can be more effective personally and in my relationships with others.
Oh, as for parables, the only other one I like besides the Cheese is Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results. It's a better read than Cheese and it's lessons are no less powerful.
 Rumor has it... October 1, 2008
...that the reason this book is a best-seller is that companies about to lay off lots of people are buying it in bulk to distribute to those on the way out, in the hope that it'll brainwash them to the extent that they won't go postal and return to their erstwhile workplace with AK-47s.
Sounds likely to me.
Good for something... September 25, 2008
It has been well documented that the people in this book are appalling stereotypes of average-Joe workers. Whose instinct is to moan about things that are out with their control rather than do something about it. I won't add to this by pointing out how offensive this is again.
Sod it, yes I will!!
I was one of those people who came across this book when the company I worked for bought thousands of copies and gave them out to people during an endless run of re-orgs. No doubt expecting us all to think "Ahh-now I get it, we have no rights. We should be like brainless animals and follow the commands of our betters". At the time the company weren't so much 'Moving The Cheese' as having "The Cheese" continuously flown around the world, attached by a long string to the back of a blind Stork. Occasionally, you would see "The Cheese" fly by the window on the 19th Floor.
Incidentally the HR Director who thought this was a great idea also thought that "Big Brother" (before the reality shows began) was a good thing. Unveiling a new coaching initiative with the slogan "Big Brother is back". When I challenged her on this (pointing out that Big Brother was a symbol of a totalitarian regime who tortured and killed anyone who even thought of standing up to them) her response was "But they (meaning the staff) won't know that". So her credibility was already gone by the time of "The Cheese" fiasco.
I'd like to say that the workers rebelled against the ideas that this book put forward and stood as one against the lacklustre management of the company while simultaneously burning the HR Director on a stack of Who Moved My Cheeses.
Or that the workforce upped and left (inspired by the book) and the company was forced to hire Mice, who were completely unable to operate even the simplest telephone system or grasp the concept of video-conferencing (but were cheap and had surprisingly good timekeeping and attendance). Thus sending the company share price plummeting and forcing the Management team into hiding in Rangoon.
Unfortunately, as you've probably guessed, everyone just shrugged their shoulders and started looking for Jobs on Monster.com. As is common in these cases, the really talented people got jobs elsewhere no problem and the company was left with the poor few who couldn't.
I was one of the lucky ones who got out. And now just a few years later this well-established Company is gone.
And the moral is - if your employers ever give you a copy of this book shove it up their a** and get the hell out of there!!
So as an indicator that you work for idiots.....it is good for something.
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