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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...

Can Coaches Nurture and Increase Team Maturity?

February 20, 2018June 3, 2022

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

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Since 2015, webinars and courses at IDM have addressed the developmental structure of teams and central issues of team coaching. Specifically, they have clarified notions such as ‘self organization’ in teams and their ability to develop ‘collaborative intelligence’. The perspective taken has been adult-developmental, to the effect that self organization of teams is anchored in...

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 Short Review of DTFM, the Dialectical Thought Form Manual (2017)

April 20, 2017June 3, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Executive coaching, Integral Leadership, Shared Leadership, Team Development, Thought Forms

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This Spring, the second editions of Laske’s Measuring Hidden Dimensions: Foundations of Requisite Organization (2008) as well as its associated Manual of Dialectical Thought Forms (2008) appears under Publications on this site. Both publications can be downloaded for a nominal price at While the first text, referred to as MHD2, introduces crucial concepts for managing...

Human work capability and complex thinking: Introducing the second, improved edition of MHD2 (2008)

April 6, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Digitization of HR, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In a time of increasing digitization of human resources and their management it is urgent to explain the limits of replacing human intelligence by algorithmic intelligence, or molding the use of human intelligence by algorithms. What is required is not only a deeper understanding of the human capability for work delivery, but the intrinsic limits...

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...