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 (fivefourpod.com)
• Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase (maintenancephase.com)
Sources:
• Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America (barbaraehrenreich.com/external/title/978031265…)
• Downsizing in America (russellsage.org/publications/downsizing-americ…)
• Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary (history.jhu.edu/faculty-books/temp-how-america…)
• The Disposable American (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/181481/the-dispos…)
• Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78 (nytimes.com/2017/07/07/books/obituary-spencer-…)
• What was the New Economy? (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-7643-7673-…)
• Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter (web.archive.org/web/20040805000430/http://www.…)
• Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading (web.archive.org/web/20040831152757/http://www.…)
• Why doesn’t downsizing deliver? (researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Schenkel/publi…)
• On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties (nytimes.com/1996/03/03/us/on-the-battlefields-…)
• Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006 (dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9909630/Ju…)
• Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession (academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8WM1…)
• Does Employee Downsizing Really Work? (imps.ac.ir/uploads/human_resorce_5334.pdf#page…)
• Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance (scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a…)
• Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market (researchgate.net/publication/317564567_Workfor…)
• A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize (ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ororsc/v10y1999i1p69-82.…)
• Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning (researchgate.net/publication/247083721_Organiz…)
• The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s (webuser.bus.umich.edu/gfdavis/Papers/Decline%2…)
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