A Good Read: ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ by Spencer Johnson M.D.
Materials – “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson, M.D>
Let’s cover something I’ve been wanting to cover for awhile now, this book has been referenced for more than 15 years of my life, Who Moved My Cheese” – Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Famous last words, ‘who removes life’s blockers’, well, you do… I’ll be brief, the book is interesting, seemingly shining the preverbal spotlight on ‘change’. I enjoyed the picture developed while various personas worked around “Who Moved My Cheese”. It’s an interesting take on transformation, identifying personal blockers, working through issues, ultimately; how to overcome transform your ‘actions’ either in your personal and professional life. The key here is action, you’ve got to do something, anything; just do something (transform) your activity into actionable, do-able and sustainable outcomes. In this case, finding new paths, ways to find success while identifying pros/cons to looking elsewhere. I’d prefer to stay away from giving the books ‘secret’ away, more importantly this the queue to look up, Who Moved My Cheese” – Spencer Johnson M.D. read the review or commentary on the book and/or download/order the book. This is an unsolicited/unpaid advertisement… so take it for face value. The value is in the read, great little work on transformation.
Finally, look, I’m not a personal growth paperback pusher (or digital read), I thought I would mention it for those of you who like to learn the value of change or in my case, communication via Audible.
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We chose growth as our first of 6 foundational messages; growth is the possibility of change. Inspire growth, try something today, right or wrong, there is growth to be had. Doing something with a CBA (Cost-to-Benefit) driven backlog is leading by change, scalable and ever present in a growth oriented, ‘next step’ business. What is odd about growth? Anyone can grow, change or improve. We use a rather well known method for improvement, ideally we learn from both the scientific method, acknowledgment of failures and empirical evidence. Nothing new, nothing transformative from a business model perspective, we find successful change is steeply rooted in change, change based on what you know today; empirical evidence. There are boat loads of studies, years management courses and years of learning to implement, work and excel in any one for the 15 flavors of Waterfall, Agile, Agile At Scale, Scrum etc etc. why so many? Yes, we recognize systems do require scaling from garage to enterprise. But, we beg to ask why? Why so many variants?
The answer is simple, making a system fit your organization… Could be bad, good and down right ugly. Hire the right people, require skills beyond tasks to be completed, team members own work and complete work – hypothesize, test, learn and apply. Is it that simple? Yes, we think that it is. Lastly, we think there is a pragmatic approach to incremental change or in this case incremental growth. Again, we will always say failures are terrible, but the difference here is the learning piece. Yes, if you fail and don’t learn; then yes it’s truly a loss. The sliver of light is the change that can come out of the the learning regardless of perspective. We think that is the micro-growth needed to improve your business no matter what size, level or challenge.
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- Manatee Chamber of Commerce, and Better Business Counsel Member ’23 – present
- Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, ’21 – ’23
- UXPA – Global Member, ’07 – ’12’, ’23 – present
- AIGA – Member At Large, ’07 – ’12, ’23 – present
- Academy of Model Aeronautics – Member, ’18 – ’23
- Certified Scrum Professional, Advanced Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance, ’19
- Professional Scrum Master, Product Owner – Scrum.org, ’16
Previous Leadership Roles:
- IBM Blue Core Coach, Coach Supervisor, ’19
- IBM Agile Achiever, ’19
- IBM Social Ambassador, ’18 – ’19
- HOA – Treasurer, ’16 – ’17
- UXPA – Director Of Experience, ’10 – ’11
- AIGA – Director Of Experience, ’10 – ’11
- SHCC – Junior Board, Membership ‘7 – ‘8
- Lacrosse Coach – Elementary, Middle School, High School, Grad/Post Grad, ’02 – ’18
Education:
- iOS and MacOS Certified Technician, Apple, ’18
- IT Support, Google, ’18
- Business Analytics, Harvard University, ’18 Cohort (in progress)
- Agile Development Program, University of Virginia, Darden School, ’16
- Master of Business Administration, University of Phoenix, ’07
- Interactive Web Technologies, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, ’05
- B.A. Graphic Design, Minor Fine Arts, Marymount University, ’03