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
• TheDisposable American
• SpencerJohnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78
• Whatwas the New Economy?
• Boss,Employees Share Large Cheese Platter
• Tarpon'sbig cheese has aides reading
• Whydoesn’t downsizing deliver?
• On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties
• ShareholderValue and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006
• Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession
• DoesEmployee Downsizing Really Work?
• Layoffs,Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
• EmergingConceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market
• A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize
• OrganizationalDownsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning
• The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s

Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!