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Heroz: Empower Yourself, Your Coworkers, Your Company

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This book is a must for every small business owner. It takes the blinders off and lets you see the big picture of your compnay. I am ordering this book for my entire management staff. I can't wait to see the results after they read this wonderful, eye-opening book.

Facing the constant threat of Dragons attacking the village, and encountering a mysterious gloomy fog each and every workday, was the reality for the people of Lamron. In order to preserve the village, and bring some meaning to the everyday work experience, change had to happen.

Heroz is a tale of a fictional village, of fictional characters facing problems common to the daily grind of work. Throughout the book, the people working in the arrow factory strive to determine and achieve the goal of the business, to make money and provide the knights charged with slaying the dragons, the quality arrows they need. Throughout the book, the factory workers and management personnel learn to work together, to enhance teamwork and motivation, and experience the enhanced ZAPP! gained by working together.

Heroz is a breeze to read, easy to identify with, especially if you experience the fog that rolls in the workplace at the beginning of the day, and lifts completely only after the last person has gone home. It's entertaining and humorous. You'll learn spells to use in all different situations, and upon completion of the book, will have them all compiled in the "Zapp! Wizard's Spell Book", conveniently tucked in at the conclusion of the novel.

For those of you that read Zapp! this book continues on the same idea. It's in parable form, which makes it easy to read and the points made are on target.

Excellent starter materiel for introducing rising junior leaders to the concept of energizing employees for performance.

Helped me tremendously when I became a manager. How to tell people what needs to be done and let them figure out how to do it. Learn while following a story. You don't even realize you're learning all the techniques because the story is so fun to read.

If you're wondering about change management, this is a great simple, easy-to-read place to start. A fun storyline and a quick read. I recommend it highly and have lent and gifted my copy (thus replacing it yet again) numerous times.

I am a school teacher and my district required me to write a book review and comment on the most inspiring aspects of this text. Only problem is, I am not mill worker with a feeble mind; last time I checked I had a real college degree. The prose of this book insults me, explaining large vocabulary words and always dumbing elements down. The analogy of this book insults me, it's written like a children's book that children would hate to read. I am far less inspired to work hard knowing that my supervisors weren't willing to inspire me themselves and instead gave me homework to do. I do not recommend this book.