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Title details for I Moved Your Cheese by Deepak Malhotra - Available

I Moved Your Cheese

For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze

by Deepak Malhotra
Robert Fass
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For all its good intentions, Who Moved My Cheese? basically reduces us to mice in a maze sniffing after cheese. Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze—mice who question everything—to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny. I Moved Your Cheese encourages readers to audit their assumptions about what limitations they really face and which are self-imposed or unthinkingly accepted. We can create the circumstances and realities we want—we can go beyond simply changing our behavior (find that new cheese!) to changing the game itself. But to do so we need to understand the ways we're holding ourselves back. As one of the characters in the book says, "the problem is not that the mouse is in the maze, but that the maze is in the mouse."

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  • Release date

    September 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792780397
      • File size: 37278 KB
      • Duration: 01:17:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this fable, the mice are used to a world in which they follow the teachings of the good book, particularly its primary message: Don't worry about who moved the cheese; just look to see where it was moved. But Max, Zed, and Big each have a different view of the world. Robert Fass narrates this fable as a story to be told to listeners of all ages. He's animated in the dialogue between the young mice and older mouse Zed as to why the mice are devoted to accumulating cheese. In the voice of a philosopher, Fass delivers Max's observations that the world can change. At the end, Fass presents a list of questions for further consideration with a sense of interest in the discussions that might follow. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2011

      Malhotra (negotiation, Harvard Business Sch.; Negotiation Genius), a regular guest on CNBC's The Big Idea, provides a thoughtful critique of Spencer Johnson's 1998 best seller Who Moved My Cheese. Johnson's motivational work is written in the style of a business fable and focuses on learning how to manage and deal with change. To balance the Johnson phenomenon, Malhotra offers an alternative approach to handling change that counters Johnson's advice to accept unquestioningly circumstances without exploring any possible alternatives, just like the mice in the parable that mindlessly chase the cheese. Using a similar parable approach with mouse characters, Malhotra suggests that we are not powerless to change our circumstances and that we can control our destiny. He explains how to analyze and overcome assumptions about the limitations we face by first understanding the ways we unknowingly hold ourselves back. Audie Award-nominated narrator Robert Fass provides a solid reading that will appeal to fans of Johnson's earlier work on change. Recommended for public libraries.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • English

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