We Move Our Own Cheese!

Have you ever felt that you had a great insight that would benefit your department, division, or organization and found that you seem to be the only one who can see it? Worse yet, has it ever seemed that while you are struggling to pull your idea into consideration, others are actively holding you back? If you just had the power, you think, great things could be accomplished.

What is your reaction? Have you and others who suggest new ideas been so beaten down in the past that you simply let the idea go because it isn t worth the emotional capital to pursue it? If that is the case, and your idea is indeed a good one, who suffers? You? The organization? The organization s customers? The answer is all of the above.

This book is designed to help those with limited positional power to find ways to get their ideas seriously considered. It is also designed to help those with positional power create a culture that encourages ideas that will benefit the organization regardless of their source.

Inspired by Spencer Johnson s classic fable, Who Moved My Cheese?, the authors of this book decided that there was another story that could be told about taking a more proactive, team-based approach to change. We Move Our Own Cheese! is about creating change. As in Johnson s book, the cheese is a metaphor for what we have in life and what we believe we want more of. In a business context, it represents the business we are in our current paradigm and what it gives us.