Dialectical Thinking – Page 7 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

A Problem-Driven Mentoring and Teaching Program for Learning Complexity Thinking

April 27, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, thinking, Thought Forms

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This blog introduces the new IDM Program for learning complexity thinking based on critical problems brought forward by the client. Client-proposed problems serve as a procedural and behavioral guideline for a 5-step acquisition of cutting-edge solution approaches that have been tested in previous IDM teaching and are grounded in Roy Bhaskar’s work on dialectic (1993)....

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...

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...

A New Era Begins at the Interdevelopmental Institute, Gloucester, MA, USA (IDM)

March 19, 2017July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Coaching, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, dialog, DTF, Integral Leadership, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms

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As the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) enters a new era, it wants to communicate what it has learned and what, based on its learning over nearly 20 years, it can now deliver to CEOs and Boards. Find out how the Institute’s main methodology, called Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF), addresses contemporary issues such as the digital transformation...

John Stewart Reviews Otto Laske’s Work on Dialectical Thinking

August 31, 2016June 3, 2022

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

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Reviews of my work on dialectical thinking since 1999 are far and few between and have been long in coming. This delay has to do with the fact that my work on this topic responds directly to Bateson’s perceptive view that “the major problems in the world (today) are the result of the difference between...