Dialectical Thinking – Page 12 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Seeing WORK as a Medium of Adult Development

June 4, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske collaborative intelligence, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske

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In this short article I am pointing to some deficiencies of the present notion of DDO, “deliberately developmental organizations”. In contrast, I present a short apercu on the benefits of CDF, the Constructive Developmental Framework which I see as a more comprehensive approach to understanding the nature of work and a set of tools for...

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...

Dialectic Interpreted in the Logic of Commerce: A Paradigm for Living in the Anthropocene

May 13, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Deep Thinking, Dialectic in the Logic of Commerce, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske

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This article proposes a new way of thinking about engaging in commercial enterprises meant to safeguard Planet Earth.DIALECTIC INTERPRETED IN THE LOGIC OF COMMERCE

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...