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Who moved my Cheese? – by Johnson, Spencer
Friday, December 26th, 2008 | Book Reviews | 1 Comment
This is a short, but clever story about two mice and two midgets living in a labyrinth looking for CHEESE all the time. The mice following their basic instinct – hunger – which is motivating them snooping and being teeming in hope to get new and more 
CHEESE. The two midgets, provided with intelligence more conscious in their decisions.
One day, both couples discover a warehouse of CHEESE at a time. The CHEESE is delicious and there is more of it than you need in a life-time! Happy about their finding, the two midgets are resting, eating the CHEESE not thinking about the future - enjoying the feeling of security. The mice are keeping on being on the lookout for CHEESE, not thinking about future and hoping to discover new sorts of more CHEESE!
After a while, the CHEESE warehouses are dispelled – all the CHEESE is gone – nobody knows WHERE and WHY! The mice, as well as the midgets have to fight for their livelihood again!
Now the strategies of the two couples are drifting apart.As usual, the mice are running around trough the labyrinth, looking out for NEW CHEESE. The midgets are sitting around – appalled, frustrated, angry – trying to understand who and why had suddenly taken THEIR CHEESE away from them! Time is passing, the two are speculating and puzzling about the present situation. Nobody is motivated to go out in the large and dangerous labyrinth to look out for NEW CHEESE. This is just too unfair and stressful to start from the beginning, not even knowing about the success of the new quest!
Eventually, one of the midgets takes the risk and goes out into the labyrinth, hoping to find a new warehouse of CHEESE. His partner preferred to stay and wait for CHEESE at the usual place – safe but hungry…- hoping somebody bringing him back HIS CHEESE.
Did you recognize yourself in one of the characters – `cause this is the point of this short-story, which is visualizing and simplifying diverse tricky situation out of our life. It makes us think about our own strategies to deal with problems and to solve them. The CHEESE – a picture of our values in life, our secret disires and hopes. The labyrinth – the difficulties we meet with, while trying to achieve a target.
This book probably helps you to find out the right strategy, offering ten strategic directions to the reader . Read it – and find out!