<Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 155.2 / 4 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> BF637. C4 J64 1998 </Td> </Tr> <P> Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September 8, 1998, is a motivational business fable . The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people," during their hunt for cheese . A New York Times business bestseller upon release, Who Moved My Cheese? remained on the list for almost five years and spent over 200 weeks on Publishers Weekly's hardcover nonfiction list . It has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide in 37 languages and remains one of the best - selling business books . </P> <P> Allegorically, Who Moved My Cheese? features four characters: two mice, "Sniff" and "Scurry," and two little people, human metaphor, "Hem" and "Haw ." (The names of the little people are taken from the phrase "hem and haw," a term for indecisiveness .) They live in a maze, a representation of one's environment, and look for cheese, representative of happiness and success . Initially without cheese, each group, the mice and humans, paired off and traveled the lengthy corridors searching for cheese . One day both groups happen upon a cheese - filled corridor at "Cheese Station C ." Content with their find, the humans establish routines around their daily intake of cheese, slowly becoming arrogant in the process . </P>

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