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Critical Facilitation: Developing Complex Thinking Through De Visch’s ‘Re-Thinking Game’

April 29, 2019July 20, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development, Thought Forms

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My colleague and friend Jan De Visch has recently made enormous strides toward a ‘dialogically savvy app’, — an app that triggers deep and critical thinking in order to foster dynamic collaboration. The app is accompanied by the Re-Thinking Game, an implementation of DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework. DTF is an ideal framework for...

Frankfurt School Hauptseminar Teachings From the Perspective of Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

April 8, 2019June 8, 2022

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

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The Frankfurt School is well known, liked or not liked, due to its pervasive influence in the domain of culture critique. As on account of increasing threats to democracy its legacy is once more coming to the fore, there is a strong tendency to focus on the products and results of the school’s activity while...

A Meeting of Minds Workshop on the Future of Work

January 9, 2019July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Team Development, Thought Forms

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The future of work is not a topic for logical thinking as much as it is one for revamping logical into complex, ‘dialectical’, thinking. The difference between the two is explained and exercised in a workshop in Brussels whose program can be downloaded here. If interested in this workshop, held on January 18, 2019, near...

International Leadership Review Interview with Robin Wood Slightly Edited by Otto Laske

December 2, 2018June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, DTF, Team Coaching

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In this wide-ranging interview, Robin W. helpfully challenges me to answer questions that arise regarding DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework, and developmental consulting to indiviuals and teams based on a dialogical and constructivist viewpoint generally. In rereading the interview, I have here and there slightly edited my answers to Robin’s question. In addition, I...

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,...