by Elle Kaplan | Oct 22, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Great ideas take flight when you are free of fear. Everyone faces fear, and that includes innovative, successful entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur’s very job is to swim upstream. The trick is maintaining faith in yourself and in your ideas despite doubt. If you...
by Elle Kaplan | Oct 7, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership
An entrepreneur can adopt a strategic management style that helps nurture an entrepreneurial mindset in her entire team. To foster a culture of entrepreneurial creativity and innovation, guide your employees to start thinking like intra-preneurs–people who bring...
by Elle Kaplan | Sep 29, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership
The Peter Principle: things that work well will be applied in more and more challenging applications – until inevitably, they reach a point at which they have exceeded their ability to be effective. Unless this principle is heeded, even an excellent tool or...
by Elle Kaplan | Sep 8, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership
CEOs are the keepers of culture. As business leader, it is your job to set the tone. The company culture starts with you and reverberates throughout your whole organization. That’s true no matter how large or small your business. Growing startup or large...
by Elle Kaplan | Sep 4, 2014 | Leadership
In reflecting on Labor Day this past week, I thought about one of my favorite parts of running LexION Capital: the opportunity to create jobs for talented, mission-driven people. In my column for Inc. this week, I wrote about being “tapped” – hearing...