Foreword

Learning & Development is in bad shape. Really bad. So bad that Clark Quinn wants you to sign up to join him in a revolution to overthrow the crap that our once-proud profession has come to.

It's not just that the emperor has no clothes. It's worse. The emperor is so out of step with the times that he must be deposed. Organizations have changed, technology has changed, and the nature of work has changed, but Learning & Development (L&D) has not advanced in the last quarter century.

L&D, which would better be called Performance and Development, is not doing what it can—and what it is doing, it's doing poorly. Other parts of organizations are creating their own solutions. They don't find L&D relevant. They bypass it.

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