Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Spencer Johnson (Author), Kenneth Blanchard (Author), Tony Roberts (Narrator),

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The number one international best seller!

A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.

It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze.
If the same old routines worked.
If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese."
But things keep changing...

Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the co-author of the multimillion best seller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude.

Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

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1 hour and 39 minutes
Author

Spencer Johnson, see all
Narrator

Tony Roberts, see all
Audible release date

July 24, 2018
Language

English
Publisher

Penguin Audio
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B07F7LS2ZW
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Unabridged
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Audiobook
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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2023

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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.

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Hadassah

Excelente

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2023

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Es un libro instructivo con un mensaje que nos permite reflexionar para nuestra superacion personal, contiene un lenguaje facil de entender, lo recomiendo.

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Lanre A.

oldie but goodie

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2023

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I thought I ll find the analogies in the book cliche and trite, but I did not. Its a quick read that can change your life with the right application.

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Philo

Life choices

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2023

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Good read, I recommend for all including or young ones 12+

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Carole

Easy read and interesting thoughts

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2023

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Good lessons to learn

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BethanyHR

Great book for managers!

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2023

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

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Light on words and pages but heavy message

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2023

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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.

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Utkarsh

Solid story to revisit when you're riding high

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2023

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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.

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P. Foy

This cheese stinks. A nasty piece of work.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2018

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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.

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Marta Michajlow

I think I'm lactose intolerant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2021

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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.'

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Eva

Life changing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2019

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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.

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Sam

Change happens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2018

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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

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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.

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