More Lies About Learning: Leading Executives Separate Truth From Fiction

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Lies About Learning Strategies

Tina Busch

We all know the learning strategies, and leaders who implement them, that succeed and those that fail. There are plenty of good articles, books, and whitepapers with blueprints on how to build an effective learning strategy and how not to. And so with all the resources available, why do so many still get it wrong? Why are those who get it right able to replicate it across different companies and industries, under widely varying conditions?

First, let’s step back and start with what learning strategy is and isn’t. In this chapter, I use “learning strategy” not as instructional strategy or how we deliver or teach content, but rather as competitive strategy or how learning organizations make their companies ...