Follow the Author

Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese Audio CD – CD, January 6, 2009

by Spencer Johnson M.D. (Author, Reader), Tony Roberts (Reader), Karen Ziemba (Reader),

(4.6) 24,319 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$14.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover, Big Book

"Please retry"

$12.98

$5.90

$0.01

Paperback

"Please retry"

—

$6.77

$11.00

Audio CD, CD, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$15.00

$10.09

$8.84

Audio CD, Audiobook, CD, Unabridged

—

$12.16

Board book

"Please retry"

$32.42

$22.57

There is a newer edition of this item:

Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
$19.12
(598)
In stock.

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy.

Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "Littlepeople" -- beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life -- whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind. And the "Maze" is where you look for what you want -- the organization you work in, or the family or community you live in. In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the Maze walls.

When you come to see "The Handwriting on the Wall," you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.

The 10th anniversary audio edition of Who Moved My Cheese? includes exclusive new bonus material in which Spencer Johnson offers fresh insights on its origins, impact and applications that will help you put its powerful wisdom to work.

Language

English
Publisher

Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date

January 6, 2009
Dimensions

5 x 0.5 x 5.75 inches
ISBN-10

0743582853
ISBN-13

978-0743582858
See all details

Products related to this item
Sponsored Hide feedback

Page 1 of 1Start overPage 1 of 1

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (January 6, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743582853
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743582858
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 5.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,502,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,390 in Stress Management Self-Help
- #15,134 in Success Self-Help
- #28,703 in Personal Transformation Self-Help

Customer Reviews:
(4.6) 24,319 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Spencer Johnson

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Spencer Johnson, M.D., is one of the world's most respected thinkers and beloved authors. Dr. Johnson earned a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California, an M.D. degree from the Royal College of Surgeons, and medical clerkships at The Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School. More than forty-six million copies of Spencer Johnson's books are in print worldwide in more than forty-seven languages.

Related products with free delivery on eligible orders
Sponsored Hide feedback | Try Prime for unlimited fast, free shipping

Page 1 of 1Start overPage 1 of 1

Customer reviews

4.6 out of 5

24,319 global ratings

5 star		75%
4 star		15%
3 star		6%
2 star		2%
1 star		2%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviews with images

See all customer images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Kuda Nyashanu

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2023

Verified Purchase

A thought provoking book which challenges you to critically evaluate your responses to change, as well as consider whether or not fear of change/the unknown is holding you back. Useful lessons on the need to change with the change as well as the need to be proactive instead of reactive.

Helpful

WM

Light on words and pages but heavy message

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2023

Verified Purchase

I was recommended this book. It is only 100 pages long and the actual book is sandwiched in the middle. Read it all anyway. It’s a short read and is kept very simple. The message is clear. The story is timeless and for such a simple story it really drives home a life lesson. I could instantly pick out the characters from the book and people that fit each type.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

BethanyHR

Great book for managers!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2023

Verified Purchase

This book will change the way you approach life. I would recommend this for a group read in a company.

Helpful

Utkarsh

Solid story to revisit when you're riding high

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2023

Verified Purchase

Great little book that can be read in an hour or two.
Perfect for when things are going well but also great when in a low.
Simple story format makes the core messages stick.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 24, 2023

Verified Purchase

Highly recommend for people going through tough work situations. Helpful for both companies and employees. Especially helpful during layoffs and restructuring.

Helpful

Ales B.

Nice concept, too much fluff around

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

Verified Purchase

The parable is bare, yet powerful enough to be inspiring and simple enough to be shared and understood by anyone - this makes is a useful cultural change driver for teams.
However the core story has around 15 pages, while the rest of it is either repetitive (group of friends discussing the parable) or outright annoying (foreword about the origin and influence of the story, which takes 25 % of the volume).
I feels only like a justification to market the bloated result as a "book", rather than a short story, probably assuming that people would not pay for 15 pages only. I have still enjoyed it and do recommend it - yet I would read the core story only, saving myself 70 % of reading time.

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

Marcia Knight

Awesome analogy!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2023

Verified Purchase

I love the way the story is so realistic!

Helpful

Reinold F.

Lessons for a better life.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2022

Verified Purchase

Lessons that can be applied to work, love or any aspect of our lives we need to improve in order to have a healthy life; and all this without lecturing the reader. The author doesn't see lack of success as a sin, but as a stage from which we can learn and we can be strong to surpass and get the thrilling emotion to run and get into adventures, but not mindlessly as hard work is not necessarily productivity. And then when success is mentioned there is a caution about being too comfortable in it and not being ready to flow with the changes and be afraid of not having a youthful vision of ourselves. There is much that could be labeled as common sense but until reading this book, and a couple of other books, I couldn't place their importance in the way I do things. Being honest with oneself and acknowledge in what we are good and what actually hinders our goals was also quite an impactful version. I am more enthusiastic about the issues I face in my creative work and my customers are also more enthusiastic to have and pay for my services. I am still working in getting to achieve my goals and I sincerely recommend that this book should be in your basic personal library. Even if it is not understood by, let's say, children at home, the story is quite engaging.

If there is somebody that wouldn't like this book though, I think persons that like a direct approach to explain and not much of parables. Maybe not for Hems : D

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

P. Foy

This cheese stinks. A nasty piece of work.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 12, 2018

Verified Purchase

This is a book for employers to give to employees. The message is simple: If we treat you like a piece of crap, don’t question it. Accept it and move on, even if it means we put you out of a job. If you do question the way you have been treated - probably so that the bosses can make more money for themselves, then you deserve to be laughed at for not being forward thinking. As I read this I imagined I was being spoken to by some repulsive individual with a PowerPoint presentation and a flip chart. I regret having given the author of this my money.

114 people found this helpful

Marta Michajlow

I think I'm lactose intolerant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 27, 2021

Verified Purchase

This book starts by telling you how amazing this cheese story is and how it changed the lives of many people. How you should repeat this story to everyone so everyone can change their lives, too. It will save your career, marriage and probably life! Then it tells you exactly what YOU will learn from it and what conclusions YOU will come to. This sentence can be found on page 18, way before you even read the actual story - 'However, as you watch what the four characters do, and realize both the mice and the Littlepeople represent parts of ourselves, it would be to our advantage to do the simple things that work when things change'.

You then have a couple of pages where old friends engage in a completely natural conversation with lines such as:
'He asked, "But, have you noticed how we don't want to change when things change?" Carlos said, "I guess we resist changing, because we're afraid of change".'
It also has the audacity to tell you that if people don't find this story life-changing or worthwhile, it's because in most cases, they're the "bad" character from the story - unwilling to change.
'They either knew the lessons and were already living them, or, more commonly, they thought they already knew everything and didn't want to learn' - p.23
'When one of our senior executives who was having a difficult time adapting, said the story was a waste of time, other people kidded him saying they knew which character he was in the story - meaning the one who learned nothing new and did not change' - p. 23

You then have the grand, life-changing story which is clunky, cheesy (pun intended!), simple and obvious. There's not much to say about the lessons this story is trying to convey, because it would take me more time I'm willing to waste on it. It simplifies things and offends the intelligence of anyone reading. Every other page is an image of cheese with some corny, quotable line such as "When you see that you can find and enjoy new cheese, you change course". The story is written in the most patronizing and infantile voice that it almost seems like the author thinks he's speaking to idiots. He probably does think that, because the next chapter consists of the same gathering of friends talking about how wonderful the story is, how it changed businesses, each person talks about how it applies to their life, and what each thing in it meant - from the names of characters to events and absolutely everything in between. Just in case you didn't get it!

Horrible waste of time. I don't remember what was the last time a book offended me this much. But hey, I'm probably just a Hem - unwilling to change and understand the brilliancy of this story. The last quote from this book, probably my favourite, very much explains how I feel about all of it.
'That's what I got out of the story. I tend to take myself too seriously. I noticed how Haw changed when he could finally laugh at himself and at what he was doing. No wonder he was called Haw"
The group groaned at the obvious play on words.'

31 people found this helpful

Eva

Life changing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 17, 2019

Verified Purchase

I have worked in the same job for over 25 years with many bosses coming and going. Each one reinvented the wheel, as was their prerogative. Over the last few years the job I loved became a 'cancer' I hadn't realised, and whilst it has made me very ill psychologically and emotionally, just reading this book (in one go) has given me answers and confirmations that have given me clarity and a peace I haven't felt in years. Everyone on the planet should read this. There's something in it for everyone. God bless you for writing this. I have lived with incredible fear for so long, and I believe I will sleep like a baby tonight.

34 people found this helpful

Sam

Change happens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 3, 2018

Verified Purchase

Very easy to read book with a very easy to understand message. Maybe not everyone wants to see the message and some will think they are being patronized in a juvenile story about basic common sense.

But it's meant to be so simplistic that the thought is focused on the message rather than the storyline. You are sure to find yourself associating with three out of the four characters and although most wont admit to being the character Hem there are many out there just like him and stuck in their past.

So many people see themselves as flexible but back up their stubborn stance as expertise gained from experience. Well we would all be walking around in loin clothes and grunting at each other if progress was restricted by experience.

This short easy to read book is well worth keeping in your library to remind yourself from time to time how easy it is to get stuck in the past. I have my copy, and purchased this one for my 17 year old nephew to help him see how to move on and leave his childhood old cheese behind.

Change is often seen as a bad thing and although it's not always easy to accept, sometimes there is no alternative and the best way to deal with it is to make the best you can out of it. Surely good advice.

Not everyone will want to contemplate the message of the book and often the ones stuck in their ways will argue the toss loudest. But there is an audience for this kind of book and out of the 26 million people who have purchased it there are bound to be arguments on both sides of the fence. That's what having an opinion is about isn't it?

19 people found this helpful

Mrs M E Aldous

It has remained as insightful and effective even after all this time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 22, 2019

Verified Purchase

I bought this for one of my apprentices who needed some support in handling change. This is the response she sent me after reading it:

I would like you to know I read Who Moved My Cheese? On my way home last night.

I found it so enlightening! I feel like even when it comes to managing change us humans tend to overcomplicate things and make simple tasks way more complex than they need to be. Seeing it put in such a basic format made the information easier to digest – Mice, littlepeople & cheese!

I also really appreciated how the book focusses on how most of the time we scare ourselves out of enjoying change because we don’t know what will happen, Its like spinning a wheel where 9 slots have £1m and 1 slot has instantaneous death😃

I see how people love to panic when change comes around (literally me as soon as any insignificant thing in my life changes) and it’s a waste of energy.

However, I will say the one thing I didn’t like in the book was when they mentioned that you should anticipate change – that made me a bit nervous because I would feel as if I’d always have to be on edge and that would make me feel almost paranoid that change is coming to get me, so I will definitely be taking that with a pinch of salt.

But overall, an amazing read I think my sister will benefit greatly from reading it too! Thanks Michelle 😊

Plus she has added today :

I’ve also spoken about the book on a couple of my social media channels and quite a few of my friends have decided it would be a very insightful read.

10 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Sorry, there was a problem.

Sorry, there was a problem.

Follow the Author

Who Moved My Cheese Audio CD – CD, January 6, 2009

There is a newer edition of this item:

Product details

Videos

About the author

Spencer Johnson

Customer reviews

Reviews with images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries