Deep Thinking – Page 5 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Transforming culture by transforming dialog in organizations and institutions

March 28, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, meta-thinking, Otto Laske

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This short text explains what is important about crafting new forms of dialog in organizations and institutions seeking to be innovative. The text points to DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework (2008, second edition 2017), that was introduced in a previous post entitled “A new approach to dialog.” In a time of deliberately developmental organization...

A New Approach to Dialog: Teaching the Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

March 24, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, dialog, DTF, Otto Laske, primer sources, Team Coaching, Team Development, thinking, Thought Forms

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Can you imagine being part of a dialog in which you not only listen to what your interlocutor is saying but also to the underlying structure of his or her thinking? If you had knowledge of the thought form structure of human sense making, this way of listening, called “dialectical”, would enable you to point...

A New Era Begins at the Interdevelopmental Institute, Gloucester, MA, USA (IDM)

March 19, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Coaching, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, dialog, DTF, Integral Leadership, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms

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As the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) enters a new era, it wants to communicate what it has learned and what, based on its learning over nearly 20 years, it can now deliver to CEOs and Boards. Find out how the Institute’s main methodology, called Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), addresses contemporary issues such as the digital transformation...

John Stewart Reviews Otto Laske’s Work on Dialectical Thinking

August 31, 2016June 3, 2022

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

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Reviews of my work on dialectical thinking since 1999 are far and few between and have been long in coming. This delay has to do with the fact that my work on this topic responds directly to Bateson’s perceptive view that “the major problems in the world (today) are the result of the difference between...

What Everybody is Losing Out On by Bypassing 40 Years of Research on Adult Development

August 29, 2016June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Thought Forms

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There is a vast lack of knowledge about how one’s own level and phase of development as an adult uncanningly and forcefully causes the kind of suffering one feels most keenly. This short article is meant as a pointer to what is missing in all of the “helping” literature and the well-meant helping activities in...

Human Developmental Processes as Key to Creating Impactful Leadership

August 2, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Articles Guests, circles, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, deliberately developmental processes, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, managerless organizations, Otto Laske, Shared Leadership, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms, zones of proximal development

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Copyright 2016 by Graham Boyd & Otto Laske In this article, the authors put forth a new approach to distributed leadership based on research in adult development and the pedagogical thought of Vygotsky, originator of the notion of zones of proximal development. The article attempts to re-totalize the issues neglected, or fragmented, by theories of...