Nature of Work – Page 2 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Laske Social Science Archive, Section I: Writings (2000-2003) on Requisite Organization and HR ‘Meta-Enablers’

February 21, 2020June 8, 2022

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The Laske Social Science Archive gathers Otto Laske’s writings on organizations written between 1999 and 2019, many of which have retained their value vis a vis new fashions of management thinking. Its sections are numbered chronologically. The Archive makes available both texts and slides, the latter for pedagogical purposes. The articles gathered are bundled according...

Three Founding Documents of IDM, The Interdevelopmental Institute

January 21, 2020June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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This year, the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) turns 20. Conceived of as a virtual teaching, consulting, and coaching institute, it has outlasted 2 decades of neglect of the cognitive dimension of life as well as work, today the focus of ‘cognitive coaching’ and/or ‘critical facilitation’. Over 20 years, the institute has educated close to 100 individuals...

Going to the Root of Establishing Collaborative Intelligence: The Quality of Dialogue

January 14, 2020June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development

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For anybody who has worked with teams or larger groups — including teams thinking of themselves as ‘agile’ — it’s clear that team members don’t often consider that what ultimately makes them ‘agile’ is the quality of their dialogue. The importance of real-time dialogue has to do with the fact that thinking precedes action, and...

Chapter Abstracts, Practices of Dynamic Collaboration, Springer 2020, by De Visch & Laske

January 2, 2020June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In this new publication, the authors extend their thinking about the adult-developmental foundations of organizational work beyond their 2018 book on collaboration, by putting their focus on 5 specific organizational practices that together constitute the mainstay of organizational work. They directly address managers’ thinking at three successively higher levels, providing them with a large number...

Cognitive Coaching as a Tool for Building Enabling Environments in Distributed-Leadership Organizations: An Introduction to the Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

December 5, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In the set of slides attached to this blog, the reader finds my presentation on cognitive coaching of January 2019, presented to a London consulting firm, MDV. The purpose of my workshop was to teach consultants a new form of developmental assessment and, based on it, of developmental thinking that is increasingly in demand in...

A Social-Emotional Team Typology for Self-Organizing Organizations

November 27, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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Teams are increasingly in focus as carriers of corporate culture. Collaboration and self-organization have become key- and buzzwords. New notions of what makes an organization ‘humane’ relative to A.I. and other kinds of ‘business software’ are emerging, but, alas, without an understanding of levels of adult development, thus without the possibility to differentiate in pragmatic...