This was another Saturday lend from Zach, as I saw it just three books down from [b:The Pearl|5308|The Pearl|John Steinbeck|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1437234939s/5308.jpg|195832] on the office bookshelf, and I thought it was another book that Zach talked about as we pulled the canoe back towards the dock. Something-something-cheese moving. However, he was talking about it's predecessor and kick-off point, the book [b:Who Ate My Cheese?|3302365|Who Ate My Cheese?|John W. Nichols|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347689673s/3302365.jpg|3339179], which he didn't happen to have a copy of. I think I've got the gist of that book through the context provided by this one, but my curiosity and inability to work with incomplete knowledge demands that I have to find a copy and read it for the sake of closure.

I give it two stars because it's so simple and didn't suggest any ideas I wasn't already thoroughly aware of and because the more we play with this rat-maze metaphor the more it falls apart. On the other hand, I totally agree that we need to remove "the maze from the mouse" and it's something I strive to do as much as I can. But god, I am depressingly complicit in so many of these structures I don't believe in and want to escape, and it seems to me that the author is too. And I'm reminded of a refrain from my critical theory prof wherein often the more we think we are outside an ideology, the more firmly we're ingrained in it. ( )

This was not what I was expecting and not very helpful. ( )

Amusing & insightful. ( )

Supposedly humorous take off on "Who moved my cheese" but it was not funny nor entertaining. ( )

Dit boek is een reactie op de klassieker "Wie heeft mijn kaas gepikt?" (Johnson en Blanchard, 1998). Voor de (geconditioneerde) muizen in een doolhof draait alles om 'Kaas' (metafoor voor zekerheden). In deze parabel accepteren de muizen Max, Zeno en Reus de doolhof niet als een gegeven; ze ontsnappen eraan - ieder op zijn manier. De boodschap is helder: in plaats van alleen maar op veranderingen te reageren en naar kaas te zoeken, kunnen we er ook voor kiezen om onze eigen verandering te creëren. Daarvoor moeten we wel van het idee af dat we niet meer dan muizen in andermans doolhof zijn...

Het boek bevat een aantal zelfreflectie- en discussievragen (voor groepen, leesclubs, organisaties, teams) en opmerkingen (voor docenten, bestuurders en leidinggevenden).
Een goede start om ermee aan de slag te gaan (zie: http://www.librarything.nl/groups/ikhebjouwkaasgepikt) ( )