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| Author: Spencer Johnson
Creator: Kenneth Blanchard
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $12.90
You Save: $7.05 (35%)
Rating:  1469 reviews
Sales Rank: 188
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0399144463
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.24
EAN: 9780399144462
Publication Date: September 8, 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 Please Pass the Cheese May 31, 2000
43 out of 55 found this review helpful
Who Moved My Cheese is a cute little work that contains a dehumanizing subtext, and its not just that Scratch n' Sniff or Scurry or whoever are mice. It's that the behavior touted for the mice is total passive acceptance of a maze (workplace, community, whatever)devoid of any accountability. The perfect little mouse simply dons his or her track shoes and disappears in the face of problems. Hey, who did move the cheese? Should it have been moved? What about awkward complications like hard work and value conflict and loyalty and pension obligations and digging for creative solutions where you are and continuity and community good. No problem. Anyone responsible for the cheese is freed of all obligation by cheerful little mice who just scurry off. (And hey, did someone we know starve; tough luck-we've got ours.) This is a dangerous, hasty little piece. The production values are even off. My edition contains a blatant, ironic typo. If you are going to pay this much for a handfull pages in really big type, you should at least get a spell check.
One Star Because They Won't Let Me Put NO Stars! July 24, 2000
43 out of 66 found this review helpful
One can almost hear the ice tinkling in the glasses at management cocktail parties, as six-figure-makers stand with jutted jaw discussing what an "amazing" (a word the authors have chosen to place on the cover!) management book this is (not). "Why, it's the perfect tool we need to persuade our ignorant, rigid, non-thinking, resistent-to-change employees to see the light and do what we say," one might say. Here we go again with the paradigm shift parable, repackaged this time as a children's story (for adults! What next? Saturday morning cartoons?) This book is the perfect example of what is wrong with America: We are constantly being spoon-fed the rediculous and far too many are swallowing, making yet another foolish fad a national craze (after all, is this not the way we measure success?). Did anyone notice that the cheese-seeking authors strive to bolster their perceived importance of this book by not only hawking their previous accomplishment on the cover -- but they also dupe the public with a gold ribbon-style graphic which is obviously intended to lead the buyer into thinking this must be an award winning book! Yes, Ken and Spence, change CAN be good. Like when you get to update your sailboat to a yacht or buy that larger property in the Hamptons as the result of another bestseller. But to middle America (us heathens who refuse to search out "new cheese" without first asking why) change is very often not good. I congratulate you both for a stellar job in masterful manipulation of corporate America. You know just what buttons to push and how to package the age old "Change and Live/Don't Change and Die" rule of business. You must have sold a lot of books and made all kinds of cheese with your efforts, fellas. Whoever paid a dime for this book must be asking the real question:"Who STOLE My Cheese?" And the answer is, "Those two big RATS, Spence Johnson and Ken Blanchard."
Who Moved My Cheese? - Madness May 4, 2000
42 out of 75 found this review helpful
Typical American psychoanalytical rubbish. Just get on with your lives, and stop reading about it. This man has made a fortune from gullible people. Don't buy any of his books - they are pointless to the degree of being offensive.
An insult to business professionals May 8, 2001
42 out of 56 found this review helpful
Yes, I got the positive message: look for ways to improve your situation and embrace change. I agree!! What I hate are the other messages found in this story: Every man for himself; when you find something good hoard it and don't tell anyone; don't think just run; follow your base animal instincts; give up on your friends; find cheese and forget finding water or anything else. We live in a world that demands simple well marketed answers to complex questions. This book fills that need.
Throw Away This Trash.....Read "Management by Vice" Instead! November 5, 2000
40 out of 53 found this review helpful
"Who Moved My Cheese?" is a ridiculous book! It panders to over-inflated managerial egos, which revel in condescendingly viewing all other employees as the "littlepeople" or preferably sniffing and scurrying mice with "simple rodent brains". And who are the managers in this parable? It is obvious from the "Discussion" section that they are supposed to be visionaries, who graciously hand down this simple-minded advice with all of the derogatory comparisons. This only confirms that it is management's counter-productive mental attitudes and behavior patterns that are truly in dire need of serious change!If you want to read a quality book, which respects the intelligence of employees and gives a voice to their perspective on management, the hilarious American satire, "Management by Vice" by C.B. Don is highly recommended. Just leave this atrociously produced, "best-selling" trash for the feeble-minded managers, who make such "great" managerial decisions as to actually endorse it and squander the company profits for the sake of a management ego-trip!
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