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!