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