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New Dialog Methods for Broad-Spectrum Systems Constellations: Comments on the Milano Workshop on Intelligenza Collaborativa Nel Team

November 7, 2017June 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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As shown at and, on this website, at , a workshop on new dialog methods specifically for creating collaborative intelligence in teams will take place in Milano, Italy, on January 30-31,2018. The workshop is offered by Consulenza Evolutiva, Milano and its Altroove School, and staffed by Lorenzo Campese, Alessandro Rossi, and Otto Laske. The workshop...

Thought Form Constellations as Measures of Team Connectivity

October 6, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Jan De Visch, Otto Laske, team connectivity, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In this article, the author proposes structural, rather than behavioral or emotional, measures of team connectivity and introduces the notion of “cognitive” or “structural” systems constellations. These measures are derived from DTF, his Dialectical Thought Framework, a methodology rooted in cognitive developmental research since 1975. In contrast to the contemporary team literature, and in a...

Improving Management by Design: Novel Tools for Expanding and Deepening the Business Model Design Space

June 26, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms

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I propose to strengthen the cognitive processes involved in design thinking, especially for cross-functional teams, both through artificial intelligence techniques and focused cognitive coaching. I take as an example of design thinking the canvas metaphor used by Osterwalder and Pigneur (2014, 2010), selecting its CS (customer segment) component for further scrutiny. Specifically, I introduce an...

A methodology for creating a developmentally aware society

March 28, 2017July 10, 2022

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

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Until quite recently, the notion that adults develop over their entire lifetime has been a well kept academic secret. It still is. Attempts at establishing “deliberately developmental organizations” (DDO’s; Kegan & Lahey 2016), based on 40 years of research in adult development, are quite recent. This article introduces to the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), a...

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...