Tag: Killing

Among these targets of the Thirty was the family of Cephalus, who is the host of the gathering portrayed in Plato’s Republic. Cephalus was a foreigner from Syracuse who had migrated to Athens at the invitation of Pericles. His family ran a large arms factory, making shields...

Wolf packs are families — and so when a pack member is killed, the family group is disrupted. To elaborate, if the killed wolf is an older pack member, the pups lose their best teacher, who would teach them to hunt ungulates — such as elk, bison, deer, moose, etc. — instead of live...

Recently I attended two training sessions on diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DE&I) training. As the father of two young daughters, this is a topic that I am becoming ever more conscious of, and as an agile coach it sparked a clear connection between organizational agility and how we act with...

This next part is a little tricky, but pay close attention. Those aforementioned wives, fiancées, and girlfriends? They might do things that you don’t like. They might do some rotten stuff. They might cheat on you. They might leave you (hence the “ex” part). They might ev...

I’m publishing this series of articles to share and discuss my ruminations on coping with a troubled and messy world. You can “follow” me to never miss an article. In a masterly Op-Ed that deserves to be widely read, and even more that its message needs to be acted on, Jamelle B...

The brutal killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, caused a storm of protest against racist police brutality in the USA. But racism is not just a problem of the American police — it is a burning issue in Austria as well. Especially “racial p...

One thing that struck me in 2015 while watching the Trump rallies that were broadcast every day on cable news was how much fun attendees appeared to be having. I was particularly struck by an interview with a woman who said to a reporter while standing in line, “I just want to chant ‘loc...