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A Greatly Delayed Departure: Notions of Competence Are Finally Fading since They Are Seen as Pernicious in a Distributed-Leadership Environment

June 20, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Otto Laske

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It is almost 20 years ago that, following Argyris’ research on theory-in-use vs. espoused theory, I began to show that both of these personal ‘theories’ are rooted in adult development over the life span. I began to take these personal ideologies apart into their social-emotional and cognitive dimensions and showed that they are intrinsically related....

Early Warnings that Competence Models Would Not Sustain Survival or Innovation

June 19, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Socio-emotional Dimension, Thought Forms

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In these two articles of 2002/03, I warned that competence models provide a view of human resources that is too limited to make possible organizational survival, not to speak of innovation, in the digital economy. The two articles below remind us how long it took for this message to sink in. In coaching and mentoring,...

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...

Foundations of Complex Thinking: What is missing from social media discourse

March 6, 2018June 12, 2022

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

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The papers collected in this blog center around the topic of complex thinking as a hallmark of individual freedom, organizational effectiveness, and societal well-being. They all focus on Lebensbefreiung, the unburdening from needless linear clutter in the mind and the obfuscation of communication. The articles point to, and explicate, a tradition of deep thinking that...