The story follows four characters - Sniff, Scurry, Haw, and Hem - who live in a maze and search for cheese. When they arrive at their usual spot one day, they find the cheese is gone and must learn to adapt to change. Haw is initially reluctant but learns he must anticipate and adapt to change quickly to find new cheese. The story teaches that change is inevitable and those who notice small changes can better adapt to larger changes. It emphasizes anticipating, monitoring, and quickly adapting to change in order to succeed.

1. Who
Moved
My
Cheese?
An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In
Your Work & In Your Life
DR SPENCER JOHNSON

2. “Cheese” – a metaphor for what we want to have in
life, whether it is a job, a relationship, money, a big
house, freedom, health, recognition, spiritual peace,
or even an activity like jogging or golf.
Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe
it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or
it’s taken away, it can be traumatic.

3. Common Goals : Every
morning we search for
favorite cheese
The maze was a complex
system of paths or tunnels in
which it is easy to get lost
The People used their complex brains and were
more sophisticated. However, emotions and
powerful human beliefs took over and clouded
their thinking

4. One morning, there was no cheese at
Station C!!! Who moved my cheese?

5. The Changes
move your
cheese!
The Cheese parable works best when
everyone in the organization knows about it,
because an organization can only change
when enough people in it change.

6. The question is how
we react to those
Changes?
Who they thought they were:
Sniff, Scurry, Hem or Haw.

7. The Sniffs who
anticipate change
early by sniffing it out
in the marketplace,
and update the
corporate vision.
The Scurrys who
quickly scurry into
action and adapts.
He liked to get things
done, so they took
action based on the
new corporate
vision.
The Haws who learn to
adapt in time when
they see something
better. They were
hesitant at first, but
were open-minded
enough to learn
something new, and
adapted.
The Hems who deny
change and resist it
out of fear. He wanted
to work in a place that
was safe and where
the changes made
sense to them, turning
them into Haws.

8. Cheese is what we think will
make us happy, and when
circumstances take it away,
different people deal with
change in different ways.
Four characters in this delightful
parable represent parts of ourselves
whenever we are confronted with
change. Discover how you can let
change work to your advantage and
let it lead you to success!

9. Whatever part of us we choose,
we all share the common need
to find our way in the maze of
life and succeed in changing
times.
Four characters live in a maze and
look for cheese to nourish them
and make them happy.
The maze is where you spend time
looking for what you want.

10. Haw now realized that the change
probably would not have taken
him by surprise if he had been
watching what was happening all
along and if he had anticipated
change.

11. Anticipate Change &
Adapt to it quickly!

12. As Haw searched for new cheese, he wrote new lessons on
the wall every day. Haw finds Station Cheese - Station N.
What took you so Long?

13. The more important your
Cheese is to you, the more
you want to hold on to it.

14. While Haw still had a supply of
cheese, he often went out and
explored new areas in order to stay
in touch with what was happening
around him.
Haw knew it was safer to be aware of his real choices than
to isolate himself in his comfort zone.

15. If you
do not
change,
you can
become
extinct.

16. Old beliefs do not lead you to
New Cheese.

17. When you move
beyond your fear,
you feel free.
Haw soon came to realize:
The fear you let build up in your mind is worse
than the situation that actually exists.
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what
you imagine.
When you change what you believe, you change
what you do.

18. Why didn’t we get up
and move with the
Cheese sooner?

19. Smell The Cheese
Often So You Know
When It is Getting Old
Haw’s Observations
Haw missed reading the signs that the Cheese
was changing
Pile was getting smaller
Some of the cheese did not taste good
Old Cheese had mold

20. Yesterday’s
Cheese is
NOT coming
back. It’s
time to
search for
New Cheese.

21. Movement in A New
Direction Helps You
Find New Cheese
Haw Searches for New Cheese
Haw wondered if Hem was searching for
new cheese
Haw fought his fears while in the maze,
he felt best when he was moving

22. Imagining myself enjoying
New Cheese, even before
I find it, leads me to it.

23. It is safer to search in the
maze than remain in a
cheeseless situation.
Haw then raced through the Maze with greater
strength & agility. Until he found bits of New
Cheese. He entered the Cheese Station but it was
empty. Someone had already been there.

24. Haw just shook his head in
disappointment but this
does not stop him from
finding New Cheese.

25. The quicker you let
go of old cheese, the
sooner you find New
Cheese.
Haw learned several things for himself:
He needed to let go of his fears.
He realized what lies out there could be a lot
better, not worse.
He should be alert in order to anticipate change,
and next time, periodically smell the cheese to
check if it is getting old.
And to learn these important lessons he had to tell
himself: GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.

26. Enjoy change.
Be ready to change quickly,
again and again.

27. When you see that
you can find and
enjoy New Cheese,
you change course.
Haw reflected as he enjoyed his New Cheese. He
realized many more things:
He had been holding onto the illusion of Old
Cheese that was no longer there.
He had started to change as soon as he learned
to laugh at his own mistakes, then he was able to
let go and move on.
Sniff and Scurry kept life simple. They didn’t
overanalyze or overcomplicate things. They
simply moved with the Cheese.

28. Noticing small changes early
helps you adapt to the bigger
changes that are to come.

29. Station N, where Haw found the new
Cheese!
Congratulation Haw!

30. Change still happens. They
keep moving the Cheese.

31. Move with the
Cheese and enjoy it!
acknowledged that
The mistakes he made in the past can be used to
plan for the future.
Notice the little changes so you are better
prepared for the big change that might be
coming.
The biggest inhibitor of change lies within your
self. Nothing gets better until you change.
Haw

32. Summary :
Change Happens
Anticipate Change
Monitor Change
Adapt To Change Quickly
Change
Enjoy Change !
Be Ready To Change Quickly &
Enjoy It Again.

33. Thank You Very Much
Todchaseth Sakkamolpat
There is always new
cheese out there!!!