Who moved my cheese

Who Moved My Cheese is an interesting parable for adults. Written by Spencer Johnson, M.D., co-author of The One Minute Manager, this book was destined to be well-read throughout the businesscommunity. That being said, there’s ten copies of this “cheese” book circulating around our office, not as “required reading,” but as “highly suggested” reading. Our department even had a deadline by whichto read it.
Not wanting to appear the resident dissident, I quickly read the first copy that crossed my desk. Now, when I said “quickly read,” I wasn’t kidding. You can knock this book out in a littleover half an hour. But, don’t think that just because it’s a quick-read the message is one to be taken lightly. Quite the contrary — Who Moved My Cheese? is packed with valuable, possiblylife-altering information. Imagine that. How could a parable about two mice and two littlepeople living in a maze possibly change your life? Well, for starters, it’s all about change and how change has unlimitedpotential depending on how you deal with it, both in your work and your home life.
Through superb story telling, the story of Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw unfolds. The mice, Sniff and Scurry, and thelittlepeople, Hem and Haw, all share a common goal. Find cheese. Being the instinctual types, Sniff and Scurry go about their daily routine of searching for cheese purely by following theirmetaphorical noses. Hem and Haw, being littlepeople with established belief patterns and paradigms already in place, go out daily looking for cheese with an intellectual approach. Theirs was the “I think,therefore I am” and “If I ignore it long enough, it will just go away” syndrome. One day they all happen upon the same large stockpile of cheese, relocate their homes to closer proximity of the newcheese, and after time settle in to a daily routine of eating and doing what mice and littlepeople do.
To make a short story even shorter, the cheese eventually runs out. Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw now...