Book Bearings
Who Moved My Cheese?
- 96 pages · about 2 hours
- First published 1998
- 37 editions
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1 About this book
Who Moved My Cheese? is a short business fable by Spencer Johnson, published in 1998. A group of old classmates meet after a reunion and talk about the changes in their lives, and one of them tells a story. Two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two mouse-sized people, Hem and Haw, live in a maze and depend on a supply of cheese, which stands for whatever a person wants in life: a job, a relationship, money, health. One day the cheese is gone. The mice set off at once to look for more; the two little people react in different ways, and the story follows what each of them does and what one of them learns and writes on the maze walls. A closing section returns to the classmates as they discuss the story.
- Change (Psychology)
- Adaptability (Psychology)
- Happiness
- Psychology
- Personal growth
- Personal growth and achievement
- Life change events
- Conduct of life
2 What to expect
A very short business fable about coping with change: two mice and two tiny people live in a maze, and one day their cheese is gone. The message is to expect change, let go quickly and move on, and it is repeated in slogans written on the maze walls. It takes under an hour to read, and the lesson is deliberately simple, which is also the main objection to it; employers have often handed it out during reorganizations.
Good for readers who want: dealing with change, a business fable, and a book to read in one sitting.
3 About Spencer Johnson
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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