Today, our company has a Town Hall Meeting in NUSS, The Graduate Club located at Suntec City. Our CEO, Mike Bandy has brought up a book - "Who Moved My Cheese?" an amazing way to deal with change in our work and in our life. It invites individuals and organizations to enjoy less stress and more success by learning to deal with the inevitable change in a modern day insight.
"Who Moved My Cheese?" is a motivational book written by Dr. Spencer Johnson published in 1998, the story of four characters living in a "Maze" who face unexpected change when they discover their "Cheese" has disappeared. Sniff and Scurry, who are mice, and Hem and Haw, little people the size of mice, each adapt to change in their "Maze" differently. In fact, one doesn't adapt at all ... ...
This timeless allegory reveals profound truths to individuals and organizations dealing with change. We each live in a "Maze", a metaphor for the companies or organizations we work with, the communities we live in, the families we love places where we look for the things we want in life, "Cheese". It may be an enjoyable career, loving relationships, wealth, or spiritual peace of mind. With time and experience, one character eventually succeeds and even prospers from the change in his "Maze".In an effort to share what he has learned along the way, he records his personal discoveries on the maze walls, the "Handwriting on the Wall". Likewise, when we begin to see the "writing on the wall", we discover the simplicity and necessity of adapting to change.
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Change always comes bearing gifts. If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies."
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