||||Introduction “Who moved my cheese?” » tells a story about change, how we respond to it, and the problems we can get into when we don't keep up with that change. The story is about four characters, two mice and two “little people”. The characters live in a maze in pursuit of cheese. Cheese represents everything we seek in life and believe it will make us happy. The story details the trials and problems we all encounter in everyday life.Book SummaryWho Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson, is a parable that shows how individuals deal with change differently. In this story, the four characters, two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two small, mouse-sized people named Hem and Haw. These four are in a maze looking for cheese; cheese is a metaphor for things that feel complete. The maze represents the environment such as land, job, home, family or anything associated with change. Change is the key variable in this story. The change occurs when Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw show up at their cheese station and discover that the cheese has been moved. This particular cheese station was once overflowing with cheese, it is now empty. Each of the four reacts differently to this difficult situation, some more successfully than others. Sniff and Scurry were prepared for change, saw it coming, showed very little resistance to change, and immediately went in search of a new cheese. The two little people, who were content with their lives, did not notice that the supply of cheese was dwindling and were unprepared for the change. Haw spent a lot of time analyzing the change before acting while Hem shut everything down, at one point he put his hands over his eyes and ears to drown out everything else, pretending... in the middle of a paper.... ..any individual. You could ask three people what their personal definition of change is and receive three different answers. Some people offer very little resistance to change, they consider it the spice of life; this avoids stagnation and maintains enthusiasm through diversity. Some see the change the way the United States viewed Russia during the Cold War, as an inevitable threat that we must constantly monitor and prepare for. Other people react to change like an ostrich reacts to danger. They just stick their head in a hole and pretend it doesn't exist. Change is happening constantly, all the time, to everyone, in one way or another. Whether or not change is accepted doesn't change the fact that it exists, but how you accept change can change how you exist. Works CitedJohnson MD, Spencer. Who moved my cheese? New York: the sons of GP Putman, 1998

Essay / ||||Introduction “Who moved my cheese?” » tells a story about change, how we respond to it, and the problems we can get into when we don't keep up with that change. The story is about four characters, two mice and two “little people”. The characters live in a maze in pursuit of cheese. Cheese represents everything we seek in life and believe it will make us happy. The story details the trials and problems we all encounter in everyday life.Book SummaryWho Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson, is a parable that shows how individuals deal with change differently. In this story, the four characters, two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two small, mouse-sized people named Hem and Haw. These four are in a maze looking for cheese; cheese is a metaphor for things that feel complete. The maze represents the environment such as land, job, home, family or anything associated with change. Change is the key variable in this story. The change occurs when Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw show up at their cheese station and discover that the cheese has been moved. This particular cheese station was once overflowing with cheese, it is now empty. Each of the four reacts differently to this difficult situation, some more successfully than others. Sniff and Scurry were prepared for change, saw it coming, showed very little resistance to change, and immediately went in search of a new cheese. The two little people, who were content with their lives, did not notice that the supply of cheese was dwindling and were unprepared for the change. Haw spent a lot of time analyzing the change before acting while Hem shut everything down, at one point he put his hands over his eyes and ears to drown out everything else, pretending... in the middle of a paper.... ..any individual. You could ask three people what their personal definition of change is and receive three different answers. Some people offer very little resistance to change, they consider it the spice of life; this avoids stagnation and maintains enthusiasm through diversity. Some see the change the way the United States viewed Russia during the Cold War, as an inevitable threat that we must constantly monitor and prepare for. Other people react to change like an ostrich reacts to danger. They just stick their head in a hole and pretend it doesn't exist. Change is happening constantly, all the time, to everyone, in one way or another. Whether or not change is accepted doesn't change the fact that it exists, but how you accept change can change how you exist. Works CitedJohnson MD, Spencer. Who moved my cheese? New York: the sons of GP Putman, 1998

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