![]() ![]() Or you can believe that finding New Cheese will help you, and embrace the change. ![]() At the heart of the book is the assertion that "Old beliefs do not lead you to new Cheese." As Haw, the individual who is most open to the possibilities of change, discovers, "You can believe that a change will harm you and resist it. In today's volatile work environment, the pithy points that Johnson makes as his characters struggle to find a kind of self-empowerment are worth bearing in mind. The problem with the world, of course, is that the Cheese is portable, leaving Johnson's characters - two mice (Sniff and Scurry) and two "littlepeople" (Hem and Haw) - to navigate a mazelike world in a somewhat desperate search for fulfillment and satisfaction. The "Cheese" (with a capital "C") referred to in the title is simply a metaphor for whatever it is that we desire most in life - recognition, acceptance, money, relationships, possessions, freedom, or anything, tangible or intangible, that becomes invested with desire. Johnson's gift for taking complicated, sometimes overwhelming feelings and making them manageable as well as open to change is the key to this book's amazing success. ![]() If you're struggling to adjust to changes and transitions at work, then you'll definitely want to keep a copy of Spencer Johnson's short but effective parable somewhere nearby. ![]()
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