Success Or Failure For Your Team Starts With You

by Elle Kaplan | Jun 12, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership

When you build a company from scratch, every person you add to your growing team must be an “A player.” An A player is not just good at her job: she is excellent, innovative, nimble, and flexible in the ever-changing world of a startup. These outstanding...

Authentic Leadership Comes Down To Core Values

by Elle Kaplan | Jun 4, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership

How do you remain true to your mission and values, while leading an authentic and successful – profitable – company? When I founded my independent wealth management firm LexION Capital, I set out to prove that a mission-driven, client-centric alternative...

How To Overcome A Fear Of Failure

by Elle Kaplan | May 6, 2014 | Goal-setting, Leadership

Embracing failure is a process of cultivating your own confidence as much as finding the lessons you need to move on to bigger and better things. Accept that failure can be part of living a full life. If you dream big and challenge the status quo (I hope you do!),...

Overnight success stories: The myth our instant-gratification generation could be falling for

by Elle Kaplan | Dec 10, 2012 | Goal-setting

The world moves at a rapid-fire pace these days, and so do we. Information is consumed in abbreviated form as pithy sound bites, you can inform your loyal followers around the globe of every detail of your life in real time, and the newest tech toys are “obsolete”...

Your best business strategy? Confidence.

by Elle Kaplan | Dec 3, 2012 | Goal-setting

When it comes to your career and your life dreams, are you willing to take “no” for an answer? Do you have enough faith in your ideas to withstand the naysayers? Confidence is a critical component of success. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will be able...