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Of mice, men and mazes

Out Of The Maze, the sequel to business bestseller Who Moved My Cheese?, expands the metaphor - but not by much

SOMETIME the late 1990s, every white-collar father was getting the same gift on Father's Day - the business book Who Moved My Cheese? written by Dr Spencer Johnson. Okay, well, that's a slight exaggeration. But the book did sell almost 30 million copies in 37 languages. And one couldn't walk into an airport bookstore then without seeing it on the "Highlight" shelves.

It was so ubiquitous, in fact, that bosses quoted it to subordinates, managers distributed it to employees before an organisational restructuring, and other writers parodied it with publications such as Who Cut The Cheese?, Nobody Moved Your Cheese!, and Who Moved My Soap?: The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison.

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