Dialectical Thinking – Page 6 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Introduction to “Dynamic Collaboration: How to Strengthen Self-Organization and Collaborative Intelligence in Teams” (Jan De Visch & Otto Laske 2018)

January 2, 2018June 16, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development, Thought Forms

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This blog gives readers access to the Introduction to Jan DeVisch’s and my book entitled Dynamic Collaboration: How to strengthen self organization and collaborative intelligence in teams, to be launched in May 2018 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In this book of five chapters, we deviate from the extant team literature by adopting an...

NEW DEAL: A sociological consulting approach to humanistic management and deliberately developmental organization

December 10, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Dialectical Thinking, Social capital, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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This blog introduces a sociological approach to consulting to organizations, with a focus on social capital (Sozialkapital) as the indispensable foundation of value creation and social productivity. The approach, called New Deal, formulated in German (Gucher et al, 2015), is the fruit of new social science research, and is sponsored by Four Dimensions GmbH active...

Accelerating Collaborative Intelligence: How to Manage the Transition to Self Organization

November 18, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Coaching, Team Development

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Teams and teamwork are the heart and soul of every organizational and institutional project. This is especially true for agile teams. It is not the individual performance or accomplishment that counts, but that of the team. Just like in team sports, the team succeeds and fails together. Up to now, little research on team collaboration...

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...