Consulting to Executives – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Advanced Systems-Level Dialectical Problem-Solving: The next level in system analysis for Think Tanks, Intelligence Agencies, Governments, Corporate Prediction, and Long-term Planning

March 8, 2023March 25, 2023

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

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Those interested in dialectical thinking will be pleased to know that Otto Laske’s volume 2 of ‘Measuring Hidden Dimensions’ of 2008 has been thoroughly revised and is in the process of becoming available again in the form of a three-part monograph under the title of this blog. The title does justice to the fact...

A Description of IDM’s Program For Acquiring Fluency in Using CDF Tools

February 23, 2022June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development

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The IDM program that leads to fluency in the use of CDF tools, now 20 years old, has unusual features that set them apart from other professional offerings. Among these features are: (1) professional learning closely linked to personal self-development, (2) comprehensive introduction into developmental and dialectical thinking, (3) exercises set in social contexts that...

Twenty Years IDM: Tribute to Otto Laske

September 23, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Otto Laske

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On September 17, 2020, 110 professionals from 35 countries met to pay tribute to the power of developmental and dialectical thinking as taught at the Interdevelopmental Institute by Otto Laske. 15 practitioners of international provenance spoke about how the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), established by Otto Laske in 1998-1999, has been instrumental in their professional...

Chapter Abstracts, Practices of Dynamic Collaboration, Springer 2020, by De Visch & Laske

January 2, 2020June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In this new publication, the authors extend their thinking about the adult-developmental foundations of organizational work beyond their 2018 book on collaboration, by putting their focus on 5 specific organizational practices that together constitute the mainstay of organizational work. They directly address managers’ thinking at three successively higher levels, providing them with a large number...

An Artificially Intelligent CDF Coach: Considerations regarding App-Based Executive Coaching

August 16, 2019June 8, 2022

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

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In this blog, I briefly sketch a coaching app based on CDF. I detail an elementary design of the app and outline its purpose, function, and main benefits. Since learning CDF through workshops takes dedication and a level of concentration rare in present times, the blog suggests that: (a). learning to build apps for CDF-based...

Laske’s ‘Transformative Effects of Coaching on Executives’ Professional Agendas’ (1999)

June 27, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Introduction, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This blog contains a downloadable copy of Laske’s Psy.D. dissertation of 1999 (2 volumes). The thesis was submitted to William James College, Newton, MA. Readers were Robert Kegan, Ph.D., of Harvard Graduate School of Education; Samual Moncata, Ph.D., of William James College, Newton, MA. (then called ‘MA School of Professional Psychology’); and Tim Hall, Ph.D,...