Deepak Malhotra

I Moved Your Cheese

For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze

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Produktbeschreibung

You are more than a mouse in someone else s maze. In this business fable, Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Deepak Malhotra encourages readers to control your own destiny rather than chase blindly after it.

If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do?

Over a decade ago the bestselling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to this question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don t waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down, and start looking for the cheese.

But success depends on the ability to push the boundaries, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules: our own. With that in mind, Deepak Malhotra offers a radically different answer to this question through an inspiring story about three unique and adventurous mice Max, Big, and Zed who refuse to accept their reality as given. As we watch their lives unfold and intersect, we discover that instead of just blindly chasing after the cheese, each of us has the ability to escape the maze or even reconfigure it to our liking.

We often underestimate our ability to control our own destiny and overcome the constraints we face or think we face. I Moved Your Cheese reminds us that we can create the new circumstances and realities we want, but first we must discard the often deeply ingrained notion that we are nothing more than mice in someone else s maze. As Zed explains, You see, Max, the problem is not that the mouse is in the maze, but that the maze is in the mouse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers / McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9781609949761
• ISBN-10: 1609949765
• Artikelnr.: 37333264

Autorenporträt

Deepak Malhotra is the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is an advisor to firms around the globe and coauthor (with Max Bazerman) of Negotiation Genius.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Good Book
Chapter 2: Max
Chapter 3: Zed
Chapter 4: Why
Chapter 5: Even the Impossible
Chapter 6: Up
Chapter 7: Big
Chapter 8: Out
Chapter 9: Who Moved My Cheese?
Chapter 10: I Moved Your Cheese
Chapter 11: Walls
Chapter 12: The Maze in the Mouse
Chapter 13: A Mouse Like No Other
Chapter 14: Some Mice Are Big
Reflection Questions for Individuals
Discussion Questions for Groups and Book Clubs
Discussion Questions for Your Organization (or Team)
A Note to Educators
A Note to Managers and Executives
Questions to the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Rezensionen

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.
Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Leader in Me

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.
Vinod Khosla, cofounder and former CEO and Chairman, Sun Microsystems, and founder, Khosla Ventures

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, author of Drive and To Sell is Human