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Who Moved My Cheese Summary
Manan Sanghi
FYBBA-C 024
D.O.S- 8th march 2016

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? -DR SPENCER JOHNSON

Why this book?
I chose this particular book because I heard that it was about how to deal with changes in life and I thought this might help me learn how to actually deal with the changes in life and work better.

About the author
Dr. Spencer Johnson, born on January 1 1998, is known for the value tales of children’s books and for his 1998 motivational book “Who Moved My Cheese?” which recurred on the New york times best seller list.
He also wrote the famous book “the one minute manager”, the world’s most popular management method, co-authored with Kenneth
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One of those present argued that the change does not bother him after hearing ‘a little funny story’ called ‘who moved my cheese?’. In this ingenious way, Spencer Johnson introduces the reader to the fable about how to deal positively with change.
The story is about four characters that live in a maze: the Scurry mice and aspiration, and two modest people hem and haw. All is well because they have found a huge source of their favorite food, cheese. Hem and haw have even moved their homes to be near him, and has become the center of their lives. But they do not realize that it is getting smaller, and sank when they reach the site one morning and find the cheese is gone.
This is where the story is divided into two. SCURRY and Sniff quickly accept the loss of the cheese and go out into the maze looking for other sources. Little people, because they have built their lives around the big cheese, feel they are victims of some form of fraud or theft. However, this only makes matters worse, as its hold on ensuring hungry. Meanwhile, mice move on and find new
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This book revolutionizes one’s outlook to change and with this new attitude, success in today’s changing time is definitely assured. Irrespective of your age, gender and caste, this book is sure to help all of its readers. It seemed like reading a schoolbook initially because of the simple language used and the effortless flow but that is the beauty of this book. It makes people understand the situation and the solution easily and thus helps in transforming one’s attitude towards

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