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A Meeting of Minds Workshop on the Future of Work

January 9, 2019July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development, Thought Forms

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The future of work is not a topic for logical thinking as much as it is one for revamping logical into complex, ‘dialectical’, thinking. The difference between the two is explained and exercised in a workshop in Brussels whose program can be downloaded here. If interested in this workshop, held on January 18, 2019, near...

International Leadership Review Interview with Robin Wood Slightly Edited by Otto Laske

December 2, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Team Coaching

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In this wide-ranging interview, Robin W. helpfully challenges me to answer questions that arise regarding DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework, and developmental consulting to indiviuals and teams based on a dialogical and constructivist viewpoint generally. In rereading the interview, I have here and there slightly edited my answers to Robin’s question. In addition, I...

Updated Editions of Laske’s Research on Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human Systems

August 30, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension

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Effective immediately, Laske’s research on developmental and dialectical thinking, found in two titles of ‘Measuring Hidden Dimensions’ called “volume 1” and “volume 2”, is available in updated pdf form at . These titles can be purchased via Paypal, upon which they will be sent out by the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) within 48 hrs. of receiving...

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....

Early Warnings that Competence Models Would Not Sustain Survival or Innovation

June 19, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Socio-emotional Dimension, Thought Forms

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In these two articles of 2002/03, I warned that competence models provide a view of human resources that is too limited to make possible organizational survival, not to speak of innovation, in the digital economy. The two articles below remind us how long it took for this message to sink in. In coaching and mentoring,...

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...