Dialectical Thinking – Page 7 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

An Interview with Otto Laske by Robin Wood, Integral Leadership Review, May 2018

June 1, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Thought Forms

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In this interview published in the Integral Leadership Review (May 2018), Otto Laske answers questions posed by Robin Wood regarding his social-science work. Special emphasis lies on Otto’s book recently co-authored with Jan De Visch entitled “Dynamic Collaboration” (2018). The wide-ranging interview touches upon many issues of present day culture fostered by logical control schemes...

A New Paradigm of Team Work: Engaging the Power of Dialog

April 29, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development

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In this article forthcoming in the Integral Leadership Review in May, 2018, Jan De Visch and Otto Laske give examples of the benefits of focusing on complex dialogical thinking in leading and coaching teams, regardless of the specific topic a team is addressing. Their developmentally informed strategy of team intervention is based on insights deriving...

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...

On the Practice of Cognitive Interviewing, Cognitive Coaching, and Text Analysis

March 25, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Bruno Frischherz, CDF, Developmental Listening, Otto Laske

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Cognitive interviewing is an art as well as science nowhere taught or practiced today. It is a kind of evidence-based interviewing that is anchored in dialectical listening. In focus in such listening are the thought forms a person uses as soon as s(he) opens her mouth, which are thus inescapable. Only a listener/thinker schooled in...

Collaborative Intelligence in Teams: The View from CDF

March 25, 2018June 9, 2022

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

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Starting in 2014, coach education at IDM shifted to team coaching. In this blog, the reader finds materials that form the basis of my collaboration with Jan De Visch on the book “Dynamic Collaboration: Strengthening Self-Organization and Collaborative Intelligence in Teams” of 2018. One of the basic tenets of this book — that organizations comprise...

Foundations of Complex Thinking: What is missing from social media discourse

March 6, 2018June 12, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Social Media, Thought Forms

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The papers collected in this blog center around the topic of complex thinking as a hallmark of individual freedom, organizational effectiveness, and societal well-being. They all focus on Lebensbefreiung, the unburdening from needless linear clutter in the mind and the obfuscation of communication. The articles point to, and explicate, a tradition of deep thinking that...