Cognitive Dimension – Page 6 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

A Developmental Systems-Constellation Workshop for Advancing Shared Leadership in Holacratic Environments

August 12, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, DTF, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Team Development

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Shared or distributed leadership in holacratic environments is often more of a hope or an advertisement than a reality. This is so because leadership is an adult-developmental issue that behavioral training methods are not equipped to handle. However, tools originating in adult-developmental research (since 1975) are still unknown or else eschewed in behaviorally thinking companies,...

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...

Human work capability and complex thinking: Introducing the second, improved edition of MHD2 (2008)

April 6, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Digitization of HR, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In a time of increasing digitization of human resources and their management it is urgent to explain the limits of replacing human intelligence by algorithmic intelligence, or molding the use of human intelligence by algorithms. What is required is not only a deeper understanding of the human capability for work delivery, but the intrinsic limits...

A methodology for creating a developmentally aware society

March 28, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, DTF, Otto Laske, Psychological Profile, Socio-emotional Dimension

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Until quite recently, the notion that adults develop over their entire lifetime has been a well kept academic secret. It still is. Attempts at establishing “deliberately developmental organizations” (DDO’s; Kegan & Lahey 2016), based on 40 years of research in adult development, are quite recent. This article introduces to the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), a...