Who
Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing way to deal with change in your work and life.Things
change. They always have changed and always will change.
While there’s no single way to deal with change, the
consequence of pretending change won’t happen is usually
the same: The cheese runs out.
Spencer
Johnson, co-author of The
One Minute Manager and many other books, makes us
think about change by using a parable. 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.
With
over a million copies in print the #1 New York Times bestseller
Who Moved My Cheese? Has grown from a guide and training
tool for America’s top corporations and organizations
to a cultural phenomenon that is changing people’s
lives.
While
a few analytical or skeptical people find the story too
simple on the surface, the vast majority of readers’
responses reveal it is the clear simplicity that makes it
so easy to understand.It helps readers manage change quickly
and prevail in changing times.
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