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In a business environment filled with bailouts, uprisings, and comebacks, the decisions leaders make can have far-reaching effects. So the question that arises is whether swift and great decision-making is a discipline that we can learn, or simply a natural skill?

One of the keys to innovation success is resolving people conflicts between employees in charge of day-to-day operations and those responsible to innovate. Chris Trimble, Professor of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, explains how to go from paper to reality.

How much information can we accumulate during our lives? People we know, places we’ve been, movies we love, important dates… Unfortunately, as powerful as it is, our brains don’t have the capacity to remember all that we would like it to. However, the good news is that technology can give us a hand. On our third day of interviews in San Francisco we talk with the founder of  Evernote, the company that is trying to help us remember EVERYTHING, and with the CEO of Affectiva, whose systems recognizes our emotions.

Admired for her commercial vision and artistic eye, CEO Angela Ahrendts has taken Burberry to the top of the luxury market.  WOBI's Lori Greene recently had the chance to chat with her in New York about the strategies she employed and the challenges she overcame in renovating the iconic 156 year old luxury fashion brand.  Read some of the highlights of their conversation here…