1. Presented By: Frank Schornagle

2. Who Moved My Cheese?
Background
Story
Key Points & Criticisms

3. Spencer Johnson, M.D. Published Who Moved My Cheese? In 1998
NY Times Best Seller
Over 26 Million Copies Sold
Cowriter of One Minute Manager

4. Believers:

5. The best laid schemes O’ mice and men Often go astray -Robert Burns

7. The Mice Sniff Scurry Sniffs out the cheese Eager for cheese
Scurries to the cheese
Eager to work

8. The (Mini)Men Hem Haw Wants his old cheese Controlling
Slowly finds out new cheese is better
Connects

9. The Story Cheese The Maze The Running Shoes Haw
Wealth, Security, Health
The Maze
Work, Family, Community
The Running Shoes
Ability to seek change
Haw
Dynamic
Seek cheese->Find cheese->Run out of cheese->Mice get new cheese, Haw stays with Hem->Haw seeks new cheese

10. Conclusion Sniff & Scurry Haw Hem Get fat! Excited to find change
Excited to move
Haw
Seeks out change upon reward
Empathizes
Hem
Left behind
Threatened by change

11. Key Points
Cheese = Happiness

12. Key Points
Don’t be complacent!

13. Key Points
It’s a part of life!
Let go!

14. Key Points
Have an adapting mindset!

15. Key Points
Look into the future!

16. Key Points
Fear is controllable!
Enjoy change!

17. Criticisms Patronizing Parable The Cheese Doesn’t Matter
Misuse of the book
The Cheese Doesn’t Matter
Enjoying the journey
There is No Cheese
Infinite chain of causes and means
Scott Adams “patronizing Parable” top reader concerns
Haw enjoys the journey
Existential/Buddhism

18. “Life is no straight and easy corridor along Which we travel free and unhampered, But a maze of passages, Through which we must seek our way, Lost and confused, now and again Checked in a blind alley But always, if we have faith, A door will open for us, Not perhaps one that we ourselves Would ever have thought of, But one that will ultimately Prove good for us.” -A. J. Cronin
MOVE WITH THE CHEESE!