Author: Spencer Johnson, M.D.

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Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple animated parable that reveals profound truths about change from one of the world's acknowledged experts on management, Dr. Spencer Johnson.

This book is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy. Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "little-people"—beings the size of mice—who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life—whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind. "The Maze" is where you look for what you want—the organization you work in, or the family or community you live in.

In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Three of the four deal with that change successfully. One does not.