I Moved Your Cheese, Deepak Malhotra
I Moved Your Cheese, Deepak Malhotra
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I Moved Your Cheese
For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else’s Maze

Author: Deepak Malhotra

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2011

Synopsis

For all its good intentions, Who Moved My Cheese? basically reduces us to mice in a maze sniffing after cheese. Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze—mice who question everything—to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny. I Moved Your Cheese encourages readers to audit their assumptions about what limitations they really face and which are self-imposed or unthinkingly accepted. We can create the circumstances and realities we want—we can go beyond simply changing our behavior (find that new cheese!) to changing the game itself. But to do so we need to understand the ways we're holding ourselves back. As one of the characters in the book says, "the problem is not that the mouse is in the maze, but that the maze is in the mouse."

About Deepak Malhotra

Deepak Malhotra is a professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches negotiation in the MBA program and in a wide variety of executive programs, including the Advanced Management Program, the Owner/President Management Program, Changing the Game, Strategic Negotiation, and Families in Business. He has been published in top journals in the fields of management, psychology, and conflict resolution and has won numerous awards for both his teaching and his research. Malhotra has also been widely cited and quoted in the mainstream media and is a regular guest on CNBC’s nightly program, The Big Idea.

About Robert Fass

Winner of the prestigious Audie Award (for History and Audio Drama), veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. A seven-time Audie nominee with over 100 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards, including for his narration of Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Isaac Asimov, Ellery Queen, Steve Berry, Jeffrey Deaver, and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, and business.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna on February 26, 2012

This is a very quick read, and an interesting perspective. This book is a rebuttal (perhaps too strong a word) to the wildly popular "Who Moved My Cheese". That book's premise was - when things around you change, you must accept the change or you won't survive. There wasn't really a question of "who"......more

Goodreads review by Les on December 30, 2011

"What I wish is not that you pursue happiness, but that you actually find happiness. Is it possible to pursue happiness, if the pursuit itself does not actually make you happy?"......more

Goodreads review by Subramanyam on October 21, 2014

How many of us have read the book, “Who Moved My cheese ?” ? Almost everyone, isn’t it ? It is hard to find a corporate employee who has not read this book, isn’t it ? Published in 1998, Dr. Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life has s......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 02, 2014

Any time this book is mentioned it's a debate over whether it refutes Who Moved My Cheese? or adding to it. To me it depends on how one interprets what the maze represents. Is it a metaphor for the world at large or does it represent limits places upon us? In I Moved Your Cheese, the moral of the sto......more

Goodreads review by Suad on February 25, 2019

Even though the teaching behind this book is relevant, I don’t see why we used the same methodology of who moved my cheese book, I suspect that the author didn’t want to re-invent the wheel but wanted to introduce few more thinking points to the same cheese and maze phenomena. Yo me though the book......more

Quotes

“An excellent book with sound lessons on how to change our circumstance and create new realities in our personal and professional lives.” Deepak Chopra

“Every once in a while a book comes along that makes you question the way things are. This is the book. Deepak Malhotra allows you to glimpse a world of your own making without the limits and barriers that others create. An excellent read.” Stephen R. Covey, New York Times bestselling author

“Deepak Malhotra tackles our assumptions about business and life with humor, zest, and wisdom in this delightful fable. If you’ve ever rankled at the thought of being just another mouse in the maze, this is the book for you.” Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author

“A magnificent story with a powerful message. As someone who has encouraged scores of professionals into breaking through the maze and defining their own pursuits, I find this to be a gem of a book. A must-read.” Vinod Khosla, cofounder and former CEO and chairman, Sun Microsystems, and founder, Khosla Ventures

“A book that will inspire the imagination of mice and managers. A formula for breaking out of the maze and creating new realities in life and in business.” Barry Nalebuff, cofounder of Honest Tea and coauthor of Thinking Strategically

Awards

  • Wall Street Journal bestseller
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