Lies About Learning

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Lies About Chief Learning Officers

Len Sherman

Over the past three years, I've gone from launching a large-scale learning outsourcing company to managing a global procurement services business to teaching business strategy at a Boston-based university. What this experience has taught me—other than that I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up—is that the world looks very different, depending on which side of the desk you're sitting.

In the first of these endeavors, when I was promoting learning outsourcing, it was of paramount importance to make the case that chief learning officers (CLOs) needed a truly strategic partner ...