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Global Insights Education, LLC 558 Castle Pines Pkwy, B4 #148 Castle Rock, CO 80108-8854 303/519-0799 Fax: 303/660-6435 christie.maher@globalinsights Global Insights products are a magnificent success in recent Philippines’ test!
Castle Rock, CO – July 18, 2007 – Upon his recent return from the Philippines, Global Insights’ President, Rich Gottbreht, announced that Global Insights’ product reviews and tests were a magnificent success! The Global Insights products successfully reviewed and tested in the Philippines were the company’s book titled Corruption Arts in Third World International Business: Traps, Swizzles, and Swindles Used by the Master Players, hardcover, ISBN: 0-9766996-0-5, and its reality board game named Xemorpheum® along with the Xemorpheum® Board Game Facilitator Guide.
The target market for this material in the Philippines is both foreign and domestic business leaders, leaders of nongovernment organizations within the Philippines and citizens trying to reduce and control the massive government and business corruption crippling the economy in the Philippines. The interviews and tests were conducted during the weeklong Governance Camp for Emerging Anti-Corruption Scout Crusaders. The governance camp was planned and operated by the Ten Outstanding Boy Scouts of the Philippines Association (TOBSPA) and funded and supported by the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF). Participants at the camp included fifty-two fifteen to seventeen year old boy scouts from all across the island of Luzon who were elected to attend based on leadership ability and academic achievements Also, participating in the camp were a great number of anticorruption movement leaders and experts on the subject of corruption in the Philippines.
Specific outcomes were that the book, game and facilitator guide are accurate and comprehensive representations of the business environment in the Philippines. Reaction to the Xemorpheum® board game by the young leaders at the camp was overwhelmingly positive as both a great teaching tool and an interesting, exciting and fun game to play all buy itself. One of the young leaders said “I am addicted to Xemorpheum®” and another said “This game is so interesting and very different from other board games I have played”. Most of the young leaders asked when the game would be available in the Philippines and many played the game over and over again during their breaks and evenings. All fifty-two liked the game and fifty (96.0%) would recommend it to others in their country. All fifty-two asked to buy a game immediately after playing the game. Within the Global Insights feedback form was a special feedback question that asked if the game resembled what these young leaders see in the Philippines every day. Forty-seven of the fifty-two (90.0%) said yes. Global Insights has now played the game with approximately ninety young leaders in this age group (thirty-eight in the U.S. and fifty-two in the Philippines). Over ninety-seven percent (97.7%) would recommend the game to others. On his trip,
Rich was able to give a game and a book to several very important
people
including professors from universities and members of the press.
Click the
link below to review one of the news articles in the Philippines about
the
game, the book and more importantly the anticorruption conference. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net Rich Gottbreht emphatically stated that he is eternally grateful to the leaders of TOBSPA and PTF for the opportunity to test its products with an elite set of young Filipino leaders and especially for taking the risk of being the first developing country to use Global Insights innovative products in their fight against corruption in their country. Corruption so unchecked that most of the country’s government officials boldly and routinely demand that as much as fifty percent of every project’s payments be kicked back into their personal accounts by vendors and suppliers. Many of these corrupt officials also publically argue that buying votes is good for the economy because it puts cash back into circulation. About Global Insights Global Insights is a family of companies based in the United States. This family of companies was founded in 2002 and works together to help developed country businesses thrive in a global economy without sacrificing their leadership's integrity. In addition, Global Insights works with the leaders of Developing Country government watch organizations to help them understand business corruption practices and their relationship to government corruption approaches. Global Insights also helps Developing Country government watch organizations find ways to hold business and government leaders from inside or outside their country accountable. Global Insights products can be reviewed and purchased through www.globalinsights.biz and www.amazon.com. |
