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."
