As we make our way out of the recent recession, it is clear that the business world has changed dramatically and there will be no going back to the way things were. Yet the training and development world remains largely stuck in dated thinking, practices, and programs that are increasingly ineffective and often irrelevant. The push to e-learning, distance learning, and a reliance on increasingly expensive learning and knowledge management systems is trendy and may help reduce training costs, but it does not address the central problems that the learning profession is facing.