Vikings Chief Operating Officer Andrew Miller prefers to lead by listening Ben Goessling, Star Tribune
In the days following the May 25 killing of George Floyd in south Minneapolis, a group of about 20 Vikings employees gathered on video calls for a Tuesday night book club they hoped would help them sort through what they d seen.
Eric Smith, a writer for the team s website, proposed the group to anyone who wanted to take a deeper look at matters of racial injustice. As the club worked through Robin DiAngelo s White Fragility a chapter at a time, employees of color and white staffers gradually opened up to share more of their own views and the experiences that shaped them.