Cognitive Dimension – Page 5 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Can Coaches Nurture and Increase Team Maturity?

February 20, 2018June 3, 2022

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

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Since 2015, webinars and courses at IDM have addressed the developmental structure of teams and central issues of team coaching. Specifically, they have clarified notions such as ‘self organization’ in teams and their ability to develop ‘collaborative intelligence’. The perspective taken has been adult-developmental, to the effect that self organization of teams is anchored in...

Introduction to “Dynamic Collaboration: How to Strengthen Self-Organization and Collaborative Intelligence in Teams” (Jan De Visch & Otto Laske 2018)

January 2, 2018June 16, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development, Thought Forms

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This blog gives readers access to the Introduction to Jan DeVisch’s and my book entitled Dynamic Collaboration: How to strengthen self organization and collaborative intelligence in teams, to be launched in May 2018 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In this book of five chapters, we deviate from the extant team literature by adopting an...

Transforming the ‘Human Resources’ Function into the Core of Humanistic Management: Potentials, Requirements and Obstacles

November 28, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Developmental Assessment, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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The topic of this abstract for a lengthy article is presently absent from the literature of ‘humanistic management’ (M. Minghetti 2014), namely, the limitations of human collaborative intelligence that naturally arise from the vicissitudes of adult development over the lifespan. (For example, at level 2 of meaning making (Kegan 1982), especially when accompanied by undeveloped...

Accelerating Collaborative Intelligence: How to Manage the Transition to Self Organization

November 18, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Coaching, Team Development

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Teams and teamwork are the heart and soul of every organizational and institutional project. This is especially true for agile teams. It is not the individual performance or accomplishment that counts, but that of the team. Just like in team sports, the team succeeds and fails together. Up to now, little research on team collaboration...

New Dialog Methods for Broad-Spectrum Systems Constellations: Comments on the Milano Workshop on Intelligenza Collaborativa Nel Team

November 7, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development, Thought Forms

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As shown at and, on this website, at , a workshop on new dialog methods specifically for creating collaborative intelligence in teams will take place in Milano, Italy, on January 30-31,2018. The workshop is offered by Consulenza Evolutiva, Milano and its Altroove School, and staffed by Lorenzo Campese, Alessandro Rossi, and Otto Laske. The workshop...

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...