Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Cheese and Change

This audio book begins with an engaging introduction by Johnson with Ken Blanchard, who has written the foreword to Johnson's book. The subtitle focuses the book's intention: "An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life."

This audio version is a full text of the creative allegory of the challenge of dealing with change in the workplace. Blanchard (PhD) and Johnson (MD) are co-authors of The One Minute Manager, which has become "the world's most popular management method."

The pleasant and expressive voice of Tony Roberts reads the active text of the book to us, telling the story of two little mice named Hem and Haw and their friends, Sniff and Scurry. The allegory develops as Hem and Haw become settled in their comfortable home in a wealthy home.

Hem and Haw planned and used their great intelligence to find cheese in the maze in which they all lived. Sniff and Scurry found cheese more by trial and error, remembering the productive lanes and nooks hiding the cheese. Hem and Haw find a plenteous and regular supply of cheese at "Cheese Station C." Hem and Haw became accustomed to the easy life with the supply of plenty of cheese and were able to organize their life comfortably.

As Hem and Haw become more affluent and comfortable, they begin to look down on their hard-working neighbors Sniff and Scurry. But the smart mice Hem and Haw mapped out the places they had found cheese, so they had to work less and less to get food every day. They became complacent, until one day they went on a trip, then came one day to find no cheese at their "Cheese Station C."

Sniff and Scurry had also been gathering some cheese from Cheese Station C, but they had noticed that the cheese supply there had been diminishing. Now that there was no more cheese, it was nothing to them. They shifted their strategy and returned to their industrious pattern of looking in various places.

But Hem and Haw were not that flexible. They had not developed foraging techniques, so were at a loss. They continued going to look for cheese at the same cheese station, but finally it was clear cheese was no longer to be found at Cheese Station C. The way they finally work out a solution spins out the possibilities of learning how to deal with the traumatic change in their situation.

The body of the story is this parable of the cheese, which is then discussed in a dialogue by business colleagues to evaluate their various businesses. Cheese is the focus then for whatever they as individuals or the company wants. This works on a personal or a corporate level. The Maze that was home to Hem and Haw represents the places you looks for what you want. This could be an organization, the family, the community or the market.

This is an enjoyable little story and the debriefing dialogue of the human characters is realistic. It is a pleasant experience and provides insights or at least an interesting review of the approaches to change. The story provides an opportunity for self-evaluation on how one meets change.

Since this story is an allegory, this audio book is an excellent way to get the story. The superb reading stimulates the mind to conjure up vivid images to enjoy the visual story in your head!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Great book

This ia a quick read. Great to apply to life

Cheese

Luv it. Watcha doin here? -izzyNiki

Sammich

Good bye.

Highly Recommended- especially for college studants and business execs.

Who Moved My Cheese is one of those books that you would not think to read if you are to succeed in business, but if you are wise you will definitely want to read this and have all of your employees read it also.

Ashli to Logan

Bahahaha carolina won both on friday nd on sunday!!!!!!

Ill continue the hunt

Later

Great book

Must read

Please...

My workplace required this book to be read by all of us mice after they moved our cheese. What they did was lower our pay and added more responsibilities to our jobs. At the same time they restructured and fired all those that were not pulling their weight or voiced their opinions. As a scare tactic perhaps? Its a book that tries to make you understand change and to deal better with changes that you have no control over. Did it help? Not really! I'm still bitter but I have a job...yea me.

Good book

Awesome book for kids and adults it teaches a lesson that change can be good

Great book

Great book

I like cheese bad

Balls this

Priced to high

I will by this at a second hand book store.

Price!

I have found this book for $1.... new. $17 is outrageous!

$17.00 is crazy!

BN NOOK is a great promoter of the online used book market.

$17 bucks? Really?

I am certain that i wasn' t wrong for dricing to the store for this one.....

??? Price ???

Wondering why the ebook is $5 more then the hardback? Makes it hard to use my nook when it's cheaper to buy the book.

$16.99 for the NOOKbook?

Just wondering why the hell this very short book is $16.99 in the NOOKbook format, but only $12.08 for the paperback. Crazy.

Recommend

This books use of phrases and insights helped me personally to get an idea on how to deal with the daily stress in my life after realizing that the word 'cheese' was standing in as a metaphor that to me met dealing with money, my jobs, and how to spend my off time. Putting parts of this book in place I am starting to realize that most of us are just running the maze. In the story, the main characters are Scurry and Sniff, two mice and Hem and Haw, two little people all living in a maze which represents your community/surroundings and you're looking for what you're wanting. As they live in the maze, the four characters face unexpected changes. And in the case of Haw, he successfully dealt with his changes by writing about what he accomplished during the journey. As the story continues, the characters begin going through a big turning point in their lives. At first they had found a large portion of cheese that they assumed would last forever, but as time passed they began to run low on cheese. After running out, Scurry and Sniff went on to look for more cheese as Haw and Hem stayed to wait for more cheese. At this point the booked had me looking at my own life when I was selfish as Haw and Hem became self-important and conceited. Whether you lost your job or being laid off, the phrases are a key part, its little phrases that are placed throughout the book help to plan your future. Who Moved My Cheese also helps to describe the different changes that exist and how to handle your future to turn it into a successful goal or career. The first 92 pages helped me to reflect on my life and the directions that I had already taken. I liked how the book amazingly helps to deal with your success in your home life and in your job by putting emphasis on what you are learning from life by day to day reviewing in your mind. One key part in the book was the phrases that Spencer Johnson decided to use; such as: if you don't change you can become extinct, the quicker you let go of the old cheese the sooner you will find new cheese, and what you would do if you were not afraid. Dr. Johnson helped to help people to relate their own lives to his book and how to change it for the better to lead towards good things, while stating how changes you make will affect people's lives in different ways This books use of phrases and insights helped me personally to get an idea on how to deal with the daily stress in my life after realizing that the word 'cheese' was standing in as a metaphor that to me met dealing with money, my jobs, and how to spend my off time. Putting parts of this book in place I am starting to realize that most of us are just running the maze. I would recommend this book to individuals who are having trouble with their lives and want a change.

Life changing

This book really makes you see how recognizing when things are changing around you and you not changing as well can really affect your life. I had so many "wow" moments when reading this book. I loved this book.