A Smarter System: Management Processes for Entrepreneurs

by Elle Kaplan | Feb 23, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership

When the crash rate for air travel shrank to 0.04% per 100 million miles, it was not because pilots became smarter—it was because smarter systems were put in place. Expectations placed on pilots became more realistic and training became more effective. The reasons...

Fly Safely: Key Leadership Lessons for Entrepreneurs

by Elle Kaplan | Feb 20, 2015 | Leadership

While traveling by plane recently, I was reading an article about the statistical likelihood of plane crashes. I actually found this article very comforting for several reasons. First, a crash event is much less likely when traveling by large commercial jet than by...

Management Mistakes To Avoid As An Entrepreneur

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...

An Entrepreneur’s Most Important Leadership Duty

by Elle Kaplan | Sep 2, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership

The one thing an entrepreneur must do to motivate her team is to give personalized attention and feedback. I approach the financial markets with a scientific approach, analyzing academic research and gathering a wealth of data. Not only is this data-driven approach...

Entrepreneurship 101: How To Create a Dream Team

by Elle Kaplan | Aug 18, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Last week, I blogged about using personality test data to avoid a hiring disaster – the most costly kind of mistake, in terms of money and time, that an entrepreneur can make. At LexION Capital, I use personality test data to help make successful hiring...