Organizations may continue to invest in creating learning environments, but we have argued that they will gain the most benefit by looking at two older learning concepts - that of facilitated learning from workplace action; and that of helping people at work gain the skills of analysis and critical thinking. Both of these, the latterespecially, will help both individuals and organizations gain more from the increasing democratisation of information, and from the increasing informality of learning.People’s ability to be a more-or-less instant authority on the presenting symptoms of feling leukaemia or the pros and cons of the various psychometric assessment procedures, is to be celebrated and encouraged. But critical faculties need to be fully engaged.