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DTF as a Tool for Creating Integral Collaborations

May 15, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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Solving real world problems tests professionals’ present level of cognitive development. A good training ground for working on hard problems in teams is the Case Study Cohort Method (CSCM) developed at the Interdevelopmental Institute. The method consists of a having members of a team assessing an individual’s or team’s level of cognitive maturity debate the...

Dialectic Interpreted in the Logic of Commerce: A Paradigm for Living in the Anthropocene

May 13, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Deep Thinking, Dialectic in the Logic of Commerce, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske

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This article proposes a new way of thinking about engaging in commercial enterprises meant to safeguard Planet Earth.DIALECTIC INTERPRETED IN THE LOGIC OF COMMERCE

Nick Shannon on “What Can IDM Offer the Integral Movement?”

March 14, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Text analysis, Text development, thinking, Thought Forms

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In this article, written in response to the 2nd ITC conference (2010), Nick Shannon outlined four main vantage points from which teachings at the Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) elucidate and strengthen integral thinking: (1) upper left quadrant, (2) dialectical unfolding of concepts, (3) moving from contextual to transformation language, and (4) cognitive development and...

Growing the Top Management Team: A Developmental View of OD

March 8, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Otto Laske, Team Development

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In this paper co-authored with Barbara Maynes,we outline a developmental view of OD. We show that Argyris “theory in use” points to different levels of mental growth, both social-emotional and cognitive. These levels are seen as the program from which theories of action arise in contributors to an organization. An early version of CDF called...

Executive Development as Adult Development

February 28, 2016June 3, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Development, Dialectical Thinking, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This article, chapter 9 of Demick et al’s Handbook of Adult Development (Springer 2002), tries to escape the tunnel vision of organizational theorists and consultants alike who, while glorifying leaders, cannot penetrate to the adult-developmental origins of leadership and get lost in psychological or spiritual speculations, or else lists of competences. Instead, the article adopts...

The Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF) as a Talent Finder and Work Design Methodology

February 4, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development

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In this short article, I highlight the resources of the Constructive Developmental Framework for finding organizational talent and designing a work environment that supports its further growth. CDF as a Talent Finder and Work Design Methodology