Many years the office I worked in paid good money to bring in one of those “Who Moved My Cheese” consultants. My very intelligent coworker immediately began to point out why it was all bullshit and how it oversimplified and totally ignored things like institutional racism, generational poverty, sexism, nepotism, corporate greed, and an economy designed to keep rich people rich. She told the consultant that Who Moved My Cheese is trying to teach poor people they are poor because they are afraid to try new things and not taking into account that trying new things is impossible when you’re working 18 hour days to literally meet basic human needs. By the end of the seminar the consultant was in complete disarray.
Everyone please beware, because managers in my age group, Generation X, will revert back to Who Moved My Cheese tactics. It’s their Jedi Mind Game to say “you’re the problem!”