Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times. Product details and pricing info |
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- Who Moved My Cheese?
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson is easily the least intellectually challenging book I have ever read. The plot line implemented in the story is brain numbingly simple and contrived. Rather than allowing the reader to understand and interpret the meaning of the story Johnson continually insults the intelligence of his reader by placing the message of every couple of pages in a block of cheese. The basic structure of the story resembles a bastardized version of Aesop's Fables. Not only are the structure and writing style of the book completely mindless the message of the story is also meaningless.
This story imparts less wisdom upon its reader that a Dr. Seuss book. It does nothing more than rehash and regurgitate common clichés regarding success through change. This story is so poorly written and argued that the only point of reflection possible following a close reading of the text is which character the reader is most like. The message of the book is stated and restated endless amounts of times through the painfully obvious style. Any wisdom imparted though this book can only be useful to a pouting 3-6 year old child, or an adult that is completely oblivious and disconnected from reality. The essential message is react to change, a principle the average human being conceptualizes before they can speak. The notion that any functioning adult can benefit from this unintelligible children's book systematically murders all hope I have invested in society. If corporate America's new trend is reading children's books they would be better served rereading and analyzing Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches and Other Stories. - 2008-05-07, 7 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- The only book you need on the subject
- Johnson's book was a life saver. It is informative, it responded to my doubts and fears, it answered my questions. It showed me a way to live with change. It taught me to think positively about something that was making me very negative.
I have given the book to several family members and friends who are lactose intolerant and even they have liked it. I highly recommend this book. - 2008-05-06, 4 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Yawn
- This one wasn't as good as I expected, but I'm sure that's only because I've already read so many of these kinds of books about change. If you haven't, you'll like it, I'm sure.
- 2008-04-28, 1 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Toddlers couldn't event learn something from this book...
- The laborious, trite and utterly useless content in this book really makes one wonder just who ACTUALLY needs things like this. The values, concepts, etc. covered in the book should be known, understood and well accepted by the time one reaches, at the latest, 10 years of age. As for the corporate aspect of things: it is absolutely insulting and doesn't even qualify as "half-truth".
There is a wide variety of thought-provoking, conversation-inspiring and life-changing books out there written on similar topics. However, unlike this book, they are written in an adult, intelligent style. This book treats the reader like a child and provides no real "meat" to think about/discuss.
I would highly recommend reading some other books that ride on a much more foundation of intelligence, but ones that go beyond mere acceptance and discuss some of the psychological and sociological aspects of the world.
Too put it shorty:
There's nothing to learn from this childish trash unless there really is something EXTREMELY wrong with your understanding of the world.
Don't insult yourself. - 2008-04-22, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Who moved my cheese
- I loved it and it is easy to read, have shared it with family members.
- 2008-04-21, 0 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
