Who Moved My Cheese?

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!