"Who Moved My Cheese". What is it all about?

Answer 1

Spencer Johnson wrote a lighthearted parable entitled "Who Moved My Cheese?" as a way for readers to step back and analyze the effects of change on their life from an outside perspective.

Change can be a tremendously upsetting event, disturbing the fragile comfort of the status quo. Departing from the known down the path of the new often requires a special mindset to dispel the knee-jerk negative thoughts that inherently come to mind and instead embark upon the path of discovery with an open mind and positive outlook.

The parable’s four principle characters are two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two little people named Hem and Haw. The four of them live in a maze and spend their days scurrying about in the eternal pursuit of cheese, however each of the four has his own unique approach to this hunt. Sniff is extremely good at sniffing out cheese, while Scurry specializes in scurrying after newly discovered cheese. Hem and Haw are not so single-minded in their cheese pursuit, but rather spend more time philosophizing about the hunt.

The moral of the story is that each of us will experience change at some point in our lives, and we will all deal with it in different ways. By providing four easily-relatable characters, Johnson helps the reader to characterize his or her own reactions to change in terms of one of these characters and evaluate the long-term consequences of those actions.

It is not what is in the story of "Who Moved My Cheese?" but how you interpret it and apply it to your own situation that gives it value.

Hopefully the way you interpret the story of "Who Moved My Cheese?" and put it into action in your life will help you find and enjoy the “New Cheese” you deserve.

Answer 2

Its about a hundred pages of the worst kind of tripe you can imagine.

The idea is to make the concept of "change" in the workplace less stressfull. In practice, it is used to shove changes like higher work loads and reduced staffing down the throats of already overworked employees.

Anybody that points out the flaws of a management "reorganization" is dismissed as just another person resisting change, symbolized by the mouse who's cheese is no longer being supplied just where he expects to find it in the maze.

Answer 3

to put it in short its about changes in life.how to deal with them mostly...