Who Moved My Cheese

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The name of the book is Who Moved My Cheese and was written by Spencer Johnson, M.D and the foreword by Kenneth Blanchard (another favorite author of mine, he co-authored The One minute manager and The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey). Who Moved My Cheese is a motivational book about change in organizations, in people, and in life. The book is also about the different reactions that people have towards change. As I often read the book, I can relate to the four Characters, Sniff and Scurry Hem and Haw as they embark on their adventures through the maze searching for their prized Cheese (with a capital C). The Cheese in this story is used as a metaphor for what people want in life. This could be anything from money, power, respect, love, family, happiness or just plainly spiritual togetherness. The Maze is a metaphor for the environment that we spend time searching for the cheese, whether this is at work, home, church, or in nature. Enough said, and on with the synopsis for the story Who Moved My Cheese. Who Moved My Cheese is the story of two small people Hem and Haw and two mice Sniff and Scurry. They all live together in the Maze and spend their days searching for Cheese (as mentioned above this could be different things for different people). One day, they come across a Cheese Station C. This is a place that has plenty of Cheese, so Sniff and Scurry take off their shoes, tie them around their necks and eat. Hem and Haw stuff themselves, go home, come back the next day and keep following this routine. Hem and Haw even move closer to the Cheese, invite their friends and brag about their wonderful Cheese. They see themselves as the owners of the Cheese. One day, Hem and Haw come to the Cheese Station C and all the Cheese is gone. Sniff and Scurry had made the same observation earlier that day, but they weren’t fazed, they just threw on their little
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