jueves, 21 de octubre de 2010

Who Moved My Cheese?

An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in My Work and in My Life.
This book describes change in work and life, and four typical reactions to said change by two mice and two "littlepeople", during their hunt for cheese.

This is a simple premise: Different people react differently to change. Some immediately move to look for the next thing. Others become paralyzed and have difficulty coping. Still others are in the middle, waiting a while but then gathering themselves up to move on.

Who moved my cheese? It is a common question if you encounter changes in your lives. Being alive means we are in constant motion to ensure our survival. This is what happened to the little people namely Ham and Hew. They are small creatures who act like and think like people today. Haw and Hem coexist with the two mice Sniff and Scurry in their struggle for survival inside the rat maze.
The story began when Haw and Hem found a huge chunk of cheese in station C. They were jubilant and decided to build their world around it. Little did they know that the two mice secretly take a portion of their cheese when they are not watching.
Their struggle began when Haw and Hem could not find the cheese where it is suppose to be."Who moved my cheese?". They could not believe what they saw. Hem was heartbroken and refused to look for a new cheese. He was expecting to find the cheese at station C again. What happens next? It is for you to find out.

The cheese was a metaphor in our day to day living. It represents success, career and other worldly riches we possess or desire. When we find our cheese we build our world around it thus, we found our comfort zone. We become obsessed with it and we want to keep it that way. When things are going well, who wants change?
What happens if by chance change occurs? How can we cope with it? Are you going to expect someday you could find our cheese again at station C? The fable taught us to be vigilant and to embrace change. Change is inevitable. We are in constant motion. We are dynamic because we are alive. We keep on coping until our last breath. So we will aim in changing for the better.

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