Leadership Skills

Civility During Crisis

Let me begin by saying that this article in no way means to criticize the people who have suffered desperately in a disaster zone. As a proactive trainer in risk management and loss prevention, we […]

Field First Aid

Snake Bite Kits

Snake Bite Extractor Kits   I wanted to include snake bite kits because it is so important. First – Never, ever, ice or cool a snake bite. The cold causes the tissues and capillaries to […]

Kits for Life™

Micro Kit

Pocket Sized Survival Kit Micro Kits are great kits to have a few of. Each one can target a different specific need. They are small, lightweight compact but offer you an opportunity to have the […]

Kits for Life™

Mini Kit

Pocket or Purse Sized Survival Kit Mini kits are a great kit to have a few of. They are small, lightweight compact but offer you an opportunity to have the most basic of supplies to […]

Kits for Life™

Get Home Bag – GHB

Keep It Near You Always To Help Get Home GHBs are most necessary for the urban worker, dweller or road warrior. There are Urban, Suburban and Wilderness variations of every kit. Unlike their bigger brother […]

Kits for Life™

Bug Out Bag (BOB)

Keep It Near You Always To Help Get Home BOB and INCH bags are the sole purview of survivalists, preppers, or road warriors. There are Urban, Suburban and Wilderness variations of the BOB. The BOB […]

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Tactical Bag

The thing that differentiates the tactical bag is in its name; tactical. The definition of tactical is combat maneuvers and actions. Typically, the tactical bag is for running a LRRP (long-range reconnaissance patrol) a small, […]

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INCH Bag

INCH bags are the sole purview of survivalists, preppers, or road warriors. There are Urban, Suburban and Wilderness variations of the BOB. Similar to the BOB, the INCH bag is different from a BOB in […]

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Vehicle Kit – General

Survival A case of water bottles or cleaned 2-liter soda bottles, refilled with tap water, and tightly capped. These bottles can be reused. Water filter. Preferably a Sawyer .02 purifier or RapidPure purifier which are […]

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Kits for Life™

Kits are the Hinge Pin of SurvivalKits and BOBs(Prepare Now or Pay Later) People don’t say that parents are crazy if they see people with an infant or a toddler carrying a kit, it is […]

Sociology

The Hawthorne Studies of 1924

The Discovery of Informal Organization Once you have familiarized yourself with the theories proffered by Durkheim, Tönnies, and Lenski another piece in the puzzle is the Hawthorne Studies of 1924. The Hawthorne Studies of 1924 […]

Leadership, Philosophy, Psychology, & Sociology

Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski

Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski Lenski Ground Breaking Postulates in Sociology Lenski tracked history, attempting to apply the theories of others that came before him. The following were his findings: Societal extinction indeed occurs The process of […]

Sociology

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

Pitirim A. Sorokin was a notable sociologist who lived from 1889–1968. He was one of the first social scientists (sociologists) to raise the alarm about what he saw as an emerging modern materialist culture. Sorokin […]

Sociology

Ferdinand Tönnies

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft Your understanding of Durkheim’s theory should be melded with what is learned in the concepts of German sociologist; Ferdinand Tönnies and his two conceptual models for types of human association: Gemeinschaft and […]