It wasn't long before his boss recognised his new attitude and energy, and he soon got better assignments. He went on to enjoy more success than ever and was later inducted into Pro Football's Hall of Fame--Broadcasters' Alley.

    That's just one of the many real-life stories I've heard about the impact this story has had on people--from their work life to their love life.

    I'm such a strong believer in the power of Who Moved My Cheese? that I gave a copy of an early pre-publication edition to everyone (more than 200 people) working with our company. Why?

    Because like every company that wants to not only survive in the future but stay competitive, The Ken Blanchard Companies are constantly changing. They keep moving our "Cheese." While in the past we may have wanted loyal employees, today we need flexible people who are not possessive about "the way things are done around here."

    And yet, as you know, living in constant white water with the changes occurring all the time at work or in life can be stressful, unless people have a way of looking at change that helps them understand it. Enter the Cheese story.

    When I told people about the story and then they got to read Who Moved My Cheese? you could almost feel the release of negative energy beginning to occur. Person after person from every department went out of their way to thank me for the book and told me how helpful it had been to them already in seeing the changes going on in our company in a different light. Believe me, this brief parable takes little time to read, but its impact can be profound.

    As. you turn the pages, you will find three sections in this book. In the first, A Gathering, former classmates talk at a class reunion bout trying to deal with the changes happening in their lives. The second section is The Story of Who Moved My Cheese?, which is the core of the book.

    In The Story you will see that the two mice do better when they are faced with change because they keep things simple, while the two Littlepeople's complex brains and human emotions complicate things. It is  not that mice are smarter We all know people are more intelligent than mice.

    However, as you watch what the for characters do, and realise both the mice and the Littlepeople represent parts of ourselves--the simple and the complex--you can see it would be to our advantage to do the simple things that work when things change.

    In the third section, A Discussion, people discuss what The Story meant to them and how they are going to use it in their work and in their lives.

    Some readers of this book's early manuscript preferred to stop at the end of The Story, without reading further, and interpret its meaning for themselves. Others enjoyed reading A Discussion that follows because it stimulated their thinking about how they might apply what they'd learned to their own situation.

 Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

     In any case, I hope each time you re-read Who Moved My Cheese? you will find something new and useful in the brief story, as I do, and that it will help you deal with change and bring you success, whatever you decide success is for you .

    I hope you enjoy what you discover, and I wish you well. Remember: Move with the Cheese!