Management Analysis Of Who Moved My Cheese?

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Management Analysis of Who Moved My Cheese? Abstract This paper is an analysis of the book, Who Moved my Cheese? by author Dr. Spencer Johnson. I will be reviewing the storey of Hem and Haw, Sniff and Scurry and relating it to real life management issues. The topics of motivation and change management will be analyzed from the lessons taught within the book. Outside sources will also be used to compare and analyze the topics of motivation and change management in real life terms and definitions. The author of Who Moved my Cheese?, Dr. Spencer Johnson, will be reviewed as to his strengths and weaknesses, and the future effectiveness of this inspirational book will also be discussed. Key Words: Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?, management, motivation, change management Who Moved My Cheese? Who Moved My Cheese? is an inspirational book by author Dr Spencer Johnson on dealing with change and motivation. The story opens with four characters, Hem, Haw, Sniff and Scurry. These four characters live in a maze. Hew and Haw are tiny human-like creatures and their friends, Sniff and Scurry, are mice. We are first introduced to the characters as they are putting on their running shoes for a daily routine of running through the maze to find cheese. They eventually learn all the paths of the maze and soon find a room filled with lots of fresh cheese. The four characters return daily to this same location and find that each day more cheese is there. Soon Hem and Haw start to feel relaxed in their new routine of just heading straight to the cheese each day. The two even start to feel like they earned the cheese, never thinking the cheese may go away or stop appearing each day in that same location. They started to get fat, lazy, and began forgetting the rest of the corridors in the maze. The two little-people just focused on their happy, daily
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