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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...

How Teams Works: A Straightforward Developmental Hypothesis

June 8, 2018June 3, 2022

Otto Laske collaborative intelligence, DTF, Team Development

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Much is made of teams these days, and rightfully so: they are the backbone of putting in place distributed leadership in organizations. New research offers a very straightforward hypothesis consisting of 3 parts: teams comprise different developmental levels, thus are “developmentally mixed” teams ‘think’: their work is based on analyzable and coachable movements-in-thought teams follow...

A New Paradigm of Team Work: Engaging the Power of Dialog

April 29, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development

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In this article forthcoming in the Integral Leadership Review in May, 2018, Jan De Visch and Otto Laske give examples of the benefits of focusing on complex dialogical thinking in leading and coaching teams, regardless of the specific topic a team is addressing. Their developmentally informed strategy of team intervention is based on insights deriving...

Thinking Differently About Teams: A New Book by Jan De Visch & Otto Laske (June 2018)

April 11, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, collaborative intelligence, Team Coaching, Team Development

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For the longest time, teams have been managed, as well as researched, based exclusively on behaviorist tenets: the notion that by focusing on how team members “behave”, their collaboration can be made more effective, even ‘self authoring’, or whatever the latest fad dictated. For the same long time, managers have spoken rather than listened, and...

Collaborative Intelligence in Teams: The View from CDF

March 25, 2018June 9, 2022

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

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Starting in 2014, coach education at IDM shifted to team coaching. In this blog, the reader finds materials that form the basis of my collaboration with Jan De Visch on the book “Dynamic Collaboration: Strengthening Self-Organization and Collaborative Intelligence in Teams” of 2018. One of the basic tenets of this book — that organizations comprise...

CDF auf Deutsch: Sozialwissenschaftliche Texte zur Lebensbefreiung und Erhoehung der Arbeitsproduktivitaet

March 1, 2018June 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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In diesem Blog stelle ich die wichtigsten der von mir seit 2004 deutsch geschriebenen sozialwissenschaftlichen Texte und Lernmaterialien zusammen. Sie betreffen thematisch, was ich Lebensbefreiung nenne, in dem Sinne, dass sie es dem Leser ermoeglichen, sein oder ihr eigenes Leben entwicklungsmaessig in tieferer Weise als bloss psychologisch zu verstehen, naemlich auf ‘epistemische’ Weise, die die...