Entrepreneur's define tomorrow and understand today. They live both forwards and backwards. Entrepreneurs invest themselves in making the tomorrow they care about. They imagine a reality and expect more than others think possible.From Elizabeth Edersheim Blog
How many people do you know could reinterpret Drucker, and make his work relevant again? You would have to be brilliant, and my friend and former partner Elizabeth Edersheim is one such person.
I first met Liz when I joined McKinsey in 1986. She was already a storied "thought leader" in Operations. Armed with a Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was shaking up traditional thinking in the world of operations strategy. I later joined her, as we partnered to build New York Consulting Partners into a world class transformation advisory service. We served some pretty amazing clients such as market leaders Arrow Electronics, Colgate-Palmolive, Clairol, Motorola and Symbol Technologies and the Thomas H. Lee portfolio companies - First Alert, Healthometer and Mr. Coffee, among others.
Analysis comes easily to Liz. She is fact-based, hypothesis driven and a brilliant thinker. To top it all off, every word she writes (and she has written several highly acclaimed books) has been honed many times before it gets committed. I know from personal experience working with our then editorial team, through whose hands every client review had to be filtered, that great communication was at the heart of every successful change management program.
If you want a sense of how brilliant people think, check out her blog, or read one of her books:
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