Who Moved My Cheese?

If Books Could Kill

What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey. 

Where to find us: 

  • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
  • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

Sources:

  • Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
  • Downsizing in America
  • Temp:  How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
  • The Disposable American
  • Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78
  • What was the New Economy?
  • Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter
  • Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading
  • Why doesn’t downsizing deliver?
  • On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties
  • Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006
  • Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession
  • Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?
  • Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
  • Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market
  • A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize
  • Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning
  • The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s

 Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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