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Who Moved My Cheese?

Who Moved My Cheese?

EducationSelf-Help & Psychology
Pages
96
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

Two mice and two little people live in a maze, and every day they go to Station C, where the cheese is. Cheese stands for whatever a person wants out of life: a job, a relationship, money, health. One morning the cheese is gone.

Sniff and Scurry, who never expected it to last, immediately head off into the maze to look for more. Hem and Haw, who had built their lives around Station C, stay put. They wait for the cheese to come back, argue about who is to blame, and grow hungrier. Eventually Haw admits the cheese is not returning and steps into the maze alone, leaving notes on the walls as he learns to move before he is forced to.

Spencer Johnson's 1998 parable is short enough to read in an hour and has sold more than thirty million copies in thirty-seven languages. It remains a fixture of corporate training and self-help shelves, read as a plain-spoken argument for anticipating change rather than resisting it.

Prose complexity
1/10

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InspiringReflectiveHopeful

Genres

Education Self-Help & Psychology Self-Help Philosophy Business & Economics Business Psychology

About the author

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Spencer Johnson

Spencer Johnson (November 24, 1938 – July 3, 2017) was an American physician and author of business and self-help books. Born in Watertown, South Dakota, he took a psychology degree at the University of Southern California and a medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He wrote the ValueTales series of illustrated children's biographies in the 1970s before co-writing The One Minute Manager (1982) with Ken Blanchard. His 1998 parable Who Moved My Cheese? became a long-running b...

Frequently asked questions

  • Is there a sequel to this book?

    Yes, a follow-up titled Out of the Maze was published in 2018, which focuses on the character Hem and his journey after the events of the original story.

  • Are there other books that offer a different perspective on the same concepts?

    The book I Moved Your Cheese by Deepak Malhotra was written as a response to this work, specifically challenging the idea that one should simply accept and adapt to changes imposed by others.

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