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Who Moved My Cheese?
A maze, some cheese and four ways of responding to change
Putnam published Spencer Johnson's book in September 1998. It is an allegory about how people respond to major change in work and life. Four characters search a maze for cheese, which represents happiness and success: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two Littlepeople, Hem and Haw. Each pair responds differently when the cheese runs out. The book runs to 94 pages.
More about this book
Who
Two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two Littlepeople, Hem and Haw.
World
A maze where the characters look for cheese, standing for happiness and success.
What makes it different
Wikipedia reports almost 30 million copies sold worldwide in 37 languages as of 2018. It stayed on the New York Times business bestseller list for almost five years.
Feel
Light and brisk.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Who Moved My Cheese?Wikipedia