Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Book Review: For review title, couldn't decide between "This book is cheese" or "An hour of my life that I'll never get back"
Summary: 1 Stars
I, like a number of other readers, do not understand how this book came to be one of the best-selling management books of all time. Having read a number of books on management, leadership, etc., I find myself compelled to disqualify positive reviews of this book as possibly being submitted by people who are not well-read nor have much experience in the management/leadership arena.
The book is overly simplistic, condescending, painfully obvious, predectible and unimaginative. You wuold have to be a terribly unreflective manager who is wholly lacking in introspection to have your eyes opened by this book. However, I suppose that if you are a person lacking in such capacities, then please do read it! If you are an employee and your boss gives you this book, s/he is basically trying to tell you that you are a deadweight whose going nowhere in your company unless you get with the corporate program.
The book is very short so I guess the most I can say for it is that at least when you waste your time reading it, you won't be wasting too much of it. Do yourself a favor and put your hard-earned money towards reading something of substance on leadership like Collins' Good to Great, Rima's Leading from the Inside Out or any of Greenleaf's various works on servant leadership.
(By the way, when I wrote this review there were over 900 'used' copies available from independent booksellers starting as low as $.75 -- prospective buyers beware -- there's a reason that there are so many of these available at such a low price.)
Book Review: cheesy but cool
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this was a great book.Granted, it was juvenile.But, its good to go back once in a while!LOL I think that made it more interesting.And, not such a chore to follow.it helped me alot!Book Review: Book that explains why change is good
Summary: 2 Stars
I quick little book that explains - thru a fable of mice and cheese - why change is good. In today's fast moving world, change happens constantly in both our personal and professional lives. This quick read teaches readers on how to adapt, change and accept to the everchanging world around us. If you do not wish to read the book, simply take note of 7 rules of change that books is trying to address: change happens, anticipate change, monitor change, adapt to change quickly, change, enjoy change and be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again & again. This short introuction could save you an hour of fairy tale read. I guess most people must like it simple. This book was - believe it or not - a bestseller.Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese?
Summary: 1 Stars
There's a message buried in there somewhere -- the names were just all too confusing!Book Review: Very motivating
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend recommended this book to me. Its very easy to read, entertaining and motivating.