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Thought Form Constellations as Measures of Team Connectivity

October 6, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Jan De Visch, Otto Laske, team connectivity, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In this article, the author proposes structural, rather than behavioral or emotional, measures of team connectivity and introduces the notion of “cognitive” or “structural” systems constellations. These measures are derived from DTF, his Dialectical Thought Framework, a methodology rooted in cognitive developmental research since 1975. In contrast to the contemporary team literature, and in a...

Improving Management by Design: Novel Tools for Expanding and Deepening the Business Model Design Space

June 26, 2017July 10, 2022

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

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I propose to strengthen the cognitive processes involved in design thinking, especially for cross-functional teams, both through artificial intelligence techniques and focused cognitive coaching. I take as an example of design thinking the canvas metaphor used by Osterwalder and Pigneur (2014, 2010), selecting its CS (customer segment) component for further scrutiny. Specifically, I introduce an...

A Problem-Driven Mentoring and Teaching Program for Learning Complexity Thinking

April 27, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, thinking, Thought Forms

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This blog introduces the new IDM Program for learning complexity thinking based on critical problems brought forward by the client. Client-proposed problems serve as a procedural and behavioral guideline for a 5-step acquisition of cutting-edge solution approaches that have been tested in previous IDM teaching and are grounded in Roy Bhaskar’s work on dialectic (1993)....

A Short Review of DTFM, the Dialectical Thought Form Manual (2017)

April 20, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Executive coaching, Integral Leadership, Shared Leadership, Team Development, Thought Forms

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This Spring, the second editions of Laske’s Measuring Hidden Dimensions: Foundations of Requisite Organization (2008) as well as its associated Manual of Dialectical Thought Forms (2008) appears under Publications on this site. Both publications can be downloaded for a nominal price at While the first text, referred to as MHD2, introduces crucial concepts for managing...