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Who Moved
My Cheese?
An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work & In Your LifeAn Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work & In Your Life
DR SPENCER JOHNSONDR SPENCER JOHNSON
Group 5 :Manan solankiPTVA’S IM .
Who Moved My Cheese
Spencer Johnson MD
Author• Spencer Johnson
• 1998• M.D. from Royal College of Surgeons• Known for simplicity• One Minute Manager; The Precious Present
Who Moved My CheeseThe Book• Part I: Gathering of Friends• Part II: The Story• Part III: Discussion of the Story
Part I: A Gathering
• Book begins with four college buddies reuniting.
• They talk about changes in their lives.
• Michael tells begins to tell them the story of Who Moved My Cheese?
Part II: The Characters• Mice
• Sniff• Scurry
• Little People• Hem• Haw
Part II: The Story• Cheese: What we want to have in life
• Maze: Where you spend your time looking for what you want
“Cheese” – a metaphor for what we want to have in life.
ONCE, long ago, there lived 4 little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them & make them happy.
Two were mice named “Sniff” & “Scurry” and two were little people named “Hem” & “Haw”.
Differences In The Characters
Mice• Simplistic Thinkers• Used Instincts• Was Aware of Changes In
Surrounding (Watchful)• When The Environment
Changed, They Changed With It.
Little People• Complex Thinkers• Used Reason• Ignorant to Changes In
Surrounding (Familiar)• Not Prepared For Change
and Did Not Change With Environment.
Every morning, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Visualizing Cheese…
If You Do Not If You Do Not Change, You Can Change, You Can Become ExtinctBecome Extinct
What Would You What Would You Do If You Weren’t Do If You Weren’t
Afraid?Afraid?
Smell The Cheese Smell The Cheese Often So You Often So You
Know When It Is Know When It Is Getting Old.Getting Old.
Movement In A Movement In A New Direction New Direction Helps You Find Helps You Find New Cheese.New Cheese.
When You Move When You Move Beyond Your Fear, Beyond Your Fear,
You Feel Free.You Feel Free.
Imagining Myself Imagining Myself Enjoying New Enjoying New Cheese, Even Cheese, Even
Before I Find It, Before I Find It, Leads Me To It.Leads Me To It.
Haw wondered why he had always thought that a change would lead to something worse. Now he realized that change could lead to something better.
Then he raced through the Maze with greater strength & agility. Until he found bits of New Cheese. He entered the Cheese Station but it was empty. Someone had already been there.
He stopped & wrote on the wall:
The Quicker You The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Cheese, The
Sooner you Find Sooner you Find New Cheese.New Cheese.
It Is Safer To It Is Safer To Search In The Search In The
Maze Than Maze Than Remain In The Remain In The
Cheeseless Cheeseless Situation.Situation.
Old Beliefs Do Not Old Beliefs Do Not Lead You To New Lead You To New
Cheese.Cheese.
Haw now realized that his new beliefs were encouraging him to behave in a new way. He was behaving differently from the way he had when he had kept returning to the same cheeseless station.
It all depends on what you choose to believe. He wrote on the wall:
When You See When You See That You Can Find That You Can Find
And Enjoy New And Enjoy New Cheese, You Cheese, You
Change Course.Change Course.
Noticing Small Noticing Small Changes Early Changes Early
Helps You Adapt Helps You Adapt To The Bigger To The Bigger
Changes That Are Changes That Are To Come.To Come.
– Change Happens (They keep moving the cheese)– Anticipate Change (Get ready for the cheese to move)– Monitor Change (Smell the cheese often so you know when it
is getting old)– Adapt to change quickly (The quicker you let go of old
cheese, the sooner you can enjoy new cheese)– Change (Move with the Cheese)– Enjoy Change (Savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of
new cheese)– Be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again and again!
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALLTHE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
No Cheese?When the cheese was gone so were the mice!• Reflect on the different reactions of the
mice and the little people.• Life is 10% of what happens to you and
90% of how you react to it.• When change happens is it as sudden as we
think or are there clues?
Lessons Learnt• One should need to adapt to change as quickly as
possible and try to apply it in our life –• Focus on your goal is very important• Confidence • Last but not the least self-motivation• Decision making• Change Happens • Anticipate Change • Monitor Change
Part III: A Discussion• Change can be a positive thing • As leaders we are to be flexible and adaptable• No one admits they fear change but think
everyone around them does – denial.• Old cheese is sometimes old behavior – new
cheese is a new or renewed relationship
Move With The Move With The Cheese & Enjoy Cheese & Enjoy
It !It !
THANK YOU