National Press Release: Xemorpheum® Board game teaches business survival skills in Third World international business

For Immediate Release
Contact: Christie Maher
Global Insights Education, LLC.
558 Castle Pines Pkwy. B4 #148
Castle Rock, CO 80108-8854
Office: 303/519-0799   Fax: 303/660-6435
christie.maher@globalinsights.biz

Castle Rock, CO - October 5, 2006 - Global Insights Education, LLC announces its new Xemorpheum® Board Game and its seventy page Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide.  The Xemorpheum® Board Game illustrates in a fun, exciting and challenging way what it is like to do business in corrupt Third World Countries.  The Xemorpheum™ Facilitator Guide shows teachers, professors and consultants how to use the Xemorpheum™ Board Game to conduct their own professional seminars.  Both the board game and the facilitator guide are based on the book by Global Insights President, Rich Gottbreht, "Corruption Arts in Third World International Business: Traps, Swizzles and Swindles Used by the Master Players", $34.95 hardcover, ISBN: 0-9766996-0-5. 

Xemorpheum® (pronounced Ze-morph-e-um) was specifically designed to teach Third World business concepts to students and business people.  The game models a Third World Business environment in an ancient coliseum setting in a far off country called Richmania.  Inside the Xemorpheum® coliseum, players experience the many challenges international business teams face while operating inside foreign countries.  Whether a player is a student or teacher, or comes from a major corporation, a small business, or something in between, they will discover how unexpected perils and pitfalls from culture, environment, government and Richmania's prison can impact their company's ability to succeed.  More importantly, the game clearly illustrates that players can win in corrupt business environments without engaging in illegal activities.  Through game play, Xemorpheum® teaches players survival fundamentals and allows them to take different approaches to the game as they try to move quickly, manage cash and deal with the many and varied kinds of Richmanian Devils (game ending cards unique to the advanced game version of Xemorpheum®) hiding in the Xemorpheum® Coliseum.

Xemorpheum® is played by two to seven players who compete against each other by rolling dice, moving around a coliseum track, drawing cards and paying crossing fees to other players or to the treasury.  Players increase their chance of winning by amassing cash, building factories and training arenas, and assembling armies. To win, one player must avoid sudden death bankruptcy and gather more wealth and power than other players while surviving the myriad of hazards, traps and pitfalls inherent in the game's unique playing environment.

The Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide allows people with a wide range of business or educational experience to conduct Third World international business seminars and training sessions using the Xemorpheum® board game offered exclusively through Global Insights Education, LLC.  Global Insights Education, LLC uses the Xemorpheum® board game and the Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide in its own professional seminars.  The Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide is not required to play and enjoy the Xemorpheum® board game right out of the box.

The Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide details Basic and Advanced Seminar versions, along with six sub options, which allow facilitators to customize seminars to a wide variety of participant education and experience levels.  There is even a Players' Option for playing the game at home with family members where players compete against each other without having to contend with Richmanian Devils (game ending cards unique to the advanced game version of Xemorpheum®).

The Xemorpheum® board game sells for $44.95 and separately from the Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide.  The seventy page Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide sells for $19.95.  Orders can be placed through www.globalinsights.biz. Xemorpheum® is a registered trademark of Richard N. Gottbreht, and means "new and ever changing coliseum".

About Global Insights and Rich Gottbreht:

Rich Gottbreht is currently president of Global Insights, LLC. A Denver, Colorado, company which provides US business executives with a variety of strategic and tactical services based on over 30 years of experience.  These services are designed to help companies succeed at home and abroad and include board game driven seminars to make learning fun. Rich has an Executive Masters of Business Administration Degree, a Bachelors Degree in Management, and an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts.

For more information or to set up an interview with the author and game creator, please contact Christie Maher at christie.maher@globalinsights.biz, or by phone at 303-519-0799.