Book Publication – Page 3 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

A Greatly Delayed Departure: Notions of Competence Are Finally Fading since They Are Seen as Pernicious in a Distributed-Leadership Environment

June 20, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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It is almost 20 years ago that, following Argyris’ research on theory-in-use vs. espoused theory, I began to show that both of these personal ‘theories’ are rooted in adult development over the life span. I began to take these personal ideologies apart into their social-emotional and cognitive dimensions and showed that they are intrinsically related....

How Teams Works: A Straightforward Developmental Hypothesis

June 8, 2018June 3, 2022

Otto Laske collaborative intelligence, DTF, Team Development

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Much is made of teams these days, and rightfully so: they are the backbone of putting in place distributed leadership in organizations. New research offers a very straightforward hypothesis consisting of 3 parts: teams comprise different developmental levels, thus are “developmentally mixed” teams ‘think’: their work is based on analyzable and coachable movements-in-thought teams follow...

The Future of CDF Is Bright: What the Early Adopters Saw

April 20, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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This blog makes accessible, and comments on, a 2010 publication of the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) on the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF) that is still largely unknown in Europe and the US. The publication is in the form of an issue of Wirtschaftspsychologie, a Swiss-German magazine focused on the psychology of work delivery, and referred to...

Thinking Differently About Teams: A New Book by Jan De Visch & Otto Laske (June 2018)

April 11, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, collaborative intelligence, Team Coaching, Team Development

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For the longest time, teams have been managed, as well as researched, based exclusively on behaviorist tenets: the notion that by focusing on how team members “behave”, their collaboration can be made more effective, even ‘self authoring’, or whatever the latest fad dictated. For the same long time, managers have spoken rather than listened, and...

How to Obtain Writings by Otto Laske

April 2, 2018June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Articles Guests, Otto Laske

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Otto Laske’s contributions to social-science, process consultation, and the teaching of & mentoring in developmental thinking and listening extend from 1999 to the present day. Many of his articles, keynotes, and teaching materials in English and German, as well as translations into Spanish and Italian, have recently been posted on this website under individual BLOGS...

Can Coaches Nurture and Increase Team Maturity?

February 20, 2018June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, collaborative intelligence, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development

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Since 2015, webinars and courses at IDM have addressed the developmental structure of teams and central issues of team coaching. Specifically, they have clarified notions such as ‘self organization’ in teams and their ability to develop ‘collaborative intelligence’. The perspective taken has been adult-developmental, to the effect that self organization of teams is anchored in...