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Who Moved My Cheese?

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1998
2019
Never (or unknown...)
Adaptation, psychological
Allegories
Change (Psychology)
Changement (Psychologie)
Life change events
Self-actualization (Psychology) - Fiction
Success - Fiction
See 19
Parts of All of Us
The Story Behind The Story By Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.
A Gathering: Chicago
Who Moved My Cheese?: The Story
Four Characters
Finding Cheese
No Cheese!
The Mice: Sniff & Scurry
The Littlepeople: Hem & Haw
Meanwhile, Back In the Maze
Getting Beyond Fear
Enjoying The Adventure
Moving With The Cheese
The Handwriting On The Wall
Tasting New Cheese
Enjoying Change!
A Discussion: Later That Same Day
New Cheese!
Share It With Others
Book Cover
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Copyright © 1998, 2002 by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Dedicated to my friend,
Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.,
whose enthusiasm for this story
encouraged me to write this book,
and whose help brought it to so many people.
Once, long ago in a land far away, there lived four little creatures who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.
May contain spoilers
He said, "I'm very glad you found the story so useful and I hope that you will have the opportunity to share it with others soon."
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
Haw just shook his head in disbelief.  He too, had counted on finding Cheese at Cheese Station C.  He stood there for a long time, frozen with shock.  He was just not ready for this.

Hem was yelling something, but Haw didn't want to hear it.  He didn't want to deal with what was facing him, so he just tuned everything out.

The Littlepeople's behavior was not very attractive or productive, but it was understandable.

Finding Cheese wasn't easy, and it meant a great deal more to the Littlepeople than just having enough of it to eat every day.

Finding Cheese was the Littlepeople's way of getting what they thought they needed to be happy.  They had their own ideas of what Cheese meant to them, depending on their taste.

For some, finding Cheese was having material things.  For others it was enjoying good health or developing a spiritual sense of well-being.

For Haw, Cheese just meant feeling safe, having a loving family someday and living in a cozy cottage on Cheddar Lane.

To Hem, Cheese was becoming a Big Cheese in charge of others and owning a big house atop Camembert Hill.

 

Added: 13-Dec-2019
Last Updated: 04-Jun-2024

Publications

 01-Jan-2002
G P Putnam's Sons
Hardback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-2002
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$19.95
Pages*:
94
Catalog ID:
0207
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
43648
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-399-14446-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-399-14446-2
Printing:
167
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Masaaki Marler - Interior Design
Back cover:

ANOTHER SPENCER JOHNSON
# 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 USA Today
#1 New York Times
#1 Wall St. Journal
#1 Business Week
The story of Who Moved My Cheese? has become a runaway #1 International Bestseller with more than 10 million copies in print!


"From Germany to India, everybody wants to know 'Who moved my cheese?"
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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.


"I'm giving this book to colleagues and friends because Spencer Johnsons unique insights and storytelling make this a rare book that can be read and understood quickly by everyone who wants to succeed in these changing times."
Randy Harris, Former Vice Chairman
MERRILL LYNCH INTERNATIONAL


An Instant Classic!
Hailed by people in leading organizations, including:

AAA • Amway • Anheuser-Busch • Apple • AT&T • Avis • Bausch & Lomb
• Goodrich • Bristol-Myers Squibb • Blue Cross • Budget • Cigna
• Chase Manhattan • Citibank • 3 Com • Compaq • Dell • EDS • Exxon
• First Union • General Motors • Georgia Pacific • Glaxo Wellcome
• Goodyear • Greyhound • GTE Directories • Hewlett-Packard • Hartford
Insurance • Hilton • IBM • International Paper • Kodak • Lockheed Martin
• Lucent Technologies • Marriott • MCI • Mead Johnson • Mercedes-Benz
• Merck • Mobil • Morgan Stanley • Nations Bank • NCAA • Nestlé • Nordstrom
• NY Stock Exchange • Pepsi • Pitney Bowes • Procter & Gamble • Pep-Boys
• Pillsbury • Sara Lee • SeaLand • Shell • Smith Kline Beecham • Southwest
Airlines • Texaco • Time Warner • U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force • Whirlpool
• Xerox • 911 Operators


It's Fast.
It's Simple.
It Works!


Front flap:

Who Moved My Cheese?
An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change
in Your Work and in Your Life


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.

Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last a lifetime.

www.whomovedmycheese.com


Back flap:

About the Author


Spencer Johnson, M.D., is one of the world's most respected thinkers and beloved authors.  His ten international bestselling books include Who Moved My Cheese?  An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change, the most widely read book on change; The One Minute Manager®, the world's most popular management method for more than two decades, coauthored with Kenneth Blanchard; and his newest #1 international best-seller, The Present.  Dr. Johnson is often referred to as "the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work."

He 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 the Harvard Medical School.  More recently, he served as Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Business School.

His work has captured the attention of major media, including the Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, Fortune magazine, The New York Times, the Today show, Time magazine, USA Today, and United Press.

He is Chairman of Spencer Johnson Partners, LLC, a company devoted to helping people and organizations change successfully, and is a 2004 Telly Award winner for Who Moved My Cheese?  The Video.  More than forty million copies of Spencer Johnson's books have been read worldwide, in more than forty-two languages.

www.whomovedmycheese.com
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01-Jan-2002
G P Putnam's Sons
Hardback

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Author(s)

 Spencer Johnson
Birth: 24 Nov 1938 Watertown, South Dakota, USA
Death: 03 Jul 2017

Notes:
From the back flap of Who Moved My Cheese?:

Spencer Johnson, M.D., is one of the world's most respected thinkers and beloved authors.  His ten international bestselling books include Who Moved My Cheese?  An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change, the most widely read book on change; The One Minute Manager®, the world's most popular management method for more than two decades, coauthored with Kenneth Blanchard; and his newest #1 international best-seller, The Present.  Dr. Johnson is often referred to as "the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work."

He 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 the Harvard Medical School.  More recently, he served as Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Business School.

His work has captured the attention of major media, including the Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, Fortune magazine, The New York Times, the Today show, Time magazine, USA Today, and United Press.

He is Chairman of Spencer Johnson Partners, LLC, a company devoted to helping people and organizations change successfully, and is a 2004 Telly Award winner for Who Moved My Cheese?  The Video.  More than forty million copies of Spencer Johnson's books have been read worldwide, in more than forty-two languages.

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