Cognitive Dimension – Page 8 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

DTF as a Tool for Creating Integral Collaborations

May 15, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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Solving real world problems tests professionals’ present level of cognitive development. A good training ground for working on hard problems in teams is the Case Study Cohort Method (CSCM) developed at the Interdevelopmental Institute. The method consists of a having members of a team assessing an individual’s or team’s level of cognitive maturity debate the...

CDF as a Talent Finder and Work Design Methodology

May 12, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Finding Talent, Shared Leadership

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In this article, I highlight the resources of the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF) for finding and retaining organizational talent and designing a work environment that supports shared leadership. CDF as a Talent Finder and Work Design Methodology

Contributions to Evidence Based Developmental Coaching

March 24, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske cognitive Fluidity, Developmental Assessment, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Team Development

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This article describes a constructivist approach to coaching based on the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). Such coaching is evidence based, i.e., based on empirical assessments of coachees prior to actual coaching. Coaching plans are based on empirical findings about coachees’ present frame of reference (the way they see the world), meant to guide them toward...

Nick Shannon on “What Can IDM Offer the Integral Movement?”

March 14, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Text analysis, Text development, thinking, Thought Forms

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In this article, written in response to the 2nd ITC conference (2010), Nick Shannon outlined four main vantage points from which teachings at the Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) elucidate and strengthen integral thinking: (1) upper left quadrant, (2) dialectical unfolding of concepts, (3) moving from contextual to transformation language, and (4) cognitive development and...

Executive Development as Adult Development

February 28, 2016June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Development, Dialectical Thinking, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This article, chapter 9 of Demick et al’s Handbook of Adult Development (Springer 2002), tries to escape the tunnel vision of organizational theorists and consultants alike who, while glorifying leaders, cannot penetrate to the adult-developmental origins of leadership and get lost in psychological or spiritual speculations, or else lists of competences. Instead, the article adopts...

Foundations of Scholarly Consulting: The Developmental Structure/Process Tool

February 22, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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This article of 2000 deepens Argyris’ notion of theory-in-use by recourse to empirical findings of the developmental sciences. It defines “consulting” based on this deeper notion. The article teaches a lesson still not learned in consulting: that theory-in-use has to do with levels of mental growth, both cognitively and social-emotionally, cutting through all “competence models”....