Self-help author dies

SPENCER Johnson, whose book Who Moved My Cheese? sold 25 million copies and became a business and self-help phenomenon, has died.

Johnson’s executive assistant Nancy Casey said the US author died last Monday of complications from pancreatic cancer in Encinitas, near San Diego.

Johnson, 78, was a medical doctor turned children’s book author when he wrote his first hit book, The One Minute Manager, in 1982, with co-author Ken Blanchard.

In 1998 came Who Moved My Cheese?, a fable on embracing change based on a story Johnson told friends and used in speeches.