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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein is a journalist who writes about economic life. Follow him on Twitter @robinsreport.

Iconography relating to the corporate business world, including an executive board meeting, the General Electric logo, memos, and a ripped up calendar.

The End of Excellence

In 1982, McKinsey & Co. management consultants Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. published one of the most influential tracts on management ever written. Titled In Search of Excellence, it quickly became a sensation, and Peters went on to write many more books and sell ...
A play on the Hamilton poster, a coal miner with a pickaxe breaks off one of the star’s arms. The background is a deep communist red.

Talk Like a Red

In the spring of 1997, New York City’s Classic Stage Company hosted a revival of the Depression-era play Waiting for Lefty. A New York Times review reflected on the “unfashionable” concerns of the playwright, Clifford Odets, while at the same time describing the world he ...