Who Moved My Cheese

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11/18/2011 Who Moved My Cheese Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson is a motivational book about how to deal with change. Cheese is used as a symbol of happiness and success, and everyone strives for it. The four characters in the book, Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw are no different as Spencer Johnson attempts to show the perspectives of very typical personalities through the characters. This book was chosen to be reviewed because it demonstrates good leadership development throughout the story. The two mice, Sniff and Scurry, along with the people, Hem and Haw, live in a maze like environment living off cheese. This cheese is a representation of everything the characters want, such as happiness and success. In the beginning of the story, the four are cheese-less and are actively looking for cheese, similar to someone jumping into adulthood and trying to make his/her way in society. Eventually, the four find a giant cheese room called Cheese Station C. The amount of cheese they find is great so the people become complacent and establish their daily routines around Cheese Station C. Sniff and Scurry arrive at Cheese Station C one day and see that there is no more left. However, they are not surprised and had actually anticipated the cheese supply to run out. They have no hesitation in leaving the station to search for new cheese. Sniff and Scurry then find a bigger cheese room; Cheese Station N. Cheese Station N had much more cheese, new and better cheese as well. When Hem and Haw discover the cheese is gone they do nothing. Day after day, these two come back to Cheese Station C to only find that their cheese has not returned. They are stuck to the mentality that everything would be okay if they just sit and wait. Haw finally decides to leave Cheese Station C. He writes on the wall “what would you do if you weren’t afraid?” and finds the courage to venture
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