Tag: Socio-emotional Dimension

In recent months, Otto Laske's work on human development has become more widely known on account of  CAD, the Center for Applied Dialectic directed by Bernhard Possert. In addition, Dr Iva Vurdelja has worked with film maker Mark Stanic on the film "Forging a Life", a documentary now available for distribution (http://vimeo.com/884507807; Password: Otto). The documentary traces Otto Laske's creative life in both the arts and sciences, showing how it lead to the creation of the Constructive Developmental Framework in 1998 to 2002. CDF takes a philosophical and empirical step beyond "developmental theory". It transitions from a stale and limited notion of development as social-emotional, based on R. Kegan's and Loevinger's work, to a much broader, philosophically grounded. dialogical epistemology, by including in developmental work  and thinking practices built on Laske's and his collegues' consulting, coaching, and team development work. In this more highly developed form, CDF links to philosophical traditions as well as new philosophical streams of thought as represented, e.g.,  by Roy Bhaskar's Dialectical Critical Realism and Gilbert Simondon's work on the philosophy of becoming as transduction (of which human development is a special case). From G. Simondon's vantage point, a theory of human development over the lifespan... Read More...

Volume 1 of 'Measuring Hidden Dimensions', on social-emotional development, first appeared in 2005 under the 'IDM Press' imprint. Its German translation was recently re-issued by Wolfgang Pabst Science Publisher, Germany, under the title of 'Humanpotenziale wecken, erkennen, und messen'. The translation into German is by Rainer v. Leoprechting who was one of the first to work  with the book in 2006 at the European Union. The reprint of the English original of the book is forthcoming from the same publisher. The French, Spanish, and Japanese translations of the work are still awaiting publication. See the publisher's announcement below, as well as a two German book reviews by Michael Habecker (written in 2012). Habecker illuminates the character of CDF by saying that it is "not a mere theory but a framework for becoming a developmental thinker and practitioner", -- a most apt characterization of my work. Neuerscheinung bei Wolfgang Pabst Science Publisher Habecker MHD Bd. 1 Rezension Habecker, Jenseits aktiven Zuhoerens Habecker ueberarbeitet OL Read More...

As time elapses, research findings get updated, consolidated, and what was originally left out or stayed unseen is clarified. An example of this historical process is CDF, the Constructive Developmental Framework created by Otto Laske between 1999 and 2000. 25 years after Kohlberg School research began, CDF brought together what this research separated or left standing in isolation. CDF is a synthesis that connects all that this research brought to light about the human self. So far, the CDF synthesis has been treated as separate from, and other than, Kegan's, Basseches' and Fowler's research. The time has come to acknowledge that CDF transcends ideology, however well defended, and is a step beyond the original research of the Harvard School. Convince yourself by reading the actual texts that constitute CDF, which has three components: a refined version of Kegan's research on the social-emotional self a refined version of Basseches' research on the cognitive self, with inclusion of Roy Bhaskar's updating of the notion of adult cognitive development an integrated component regarding the psychological self as seen by Moris Aderman, student of Henry Murray's, called 'Need-Press' (see www.needpress.com). Texts on these components of CDF have been made available in pdf form found... Read More...

The Laske Social Science Archive gathers Otto Laske’s writings on organizations written between 1999 and 2019, many of which have retained their value vis a vis new fashions of management thinking. Its sections are numbered chronologically. The Archive makes available both texts and slides, the latter for pedagogical purposes. The articles gathered are bundled according to topic. They can be downloaded free of charge. Archive IV gathers explanatory as well culture-critical papers on CDF as an empirically grounded epistemology (theory of knowledge), including Wikipedia articles on CDF in English, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, and comprehensive introductions to CDF for diverse audiences. There are also articles on work design and shared leadership seen from a perspective of CDF, including an article on developmental listening as the crux of using CDF expertly. Learning such listening by itself leads to a revolution of thinking, not only about the social world, but about the 'real world' as well. Wikipedia Articles 2013 English Wikipedia article 2014c Spanisch Wikipedia article on CDF 2016a Italian Wikipedia article 2016n Japanese Wikipedia 構成主義的発達論のフレームワーク Culture Critique 2012 CDF - End of developmental absolutism 2013 On the ethics of process consultation 2016d Human Systems in the Anthropocene 2016j What is everybody... Read More...

Over the next month, due to increasing demand, Otto Laske will make available a large number of his unpublished social-science papers on this site. The majority of papers is unpublished, but some important papers published more than 10 years ago will also be made available. Only very few papers are incomplete. The Archive is divided into two parts: Decade 1 (1999-2009) and Decade 2 (2010 to 2019) of IDM. Each part of the Archive will be in the form of a single blog and will comprise both papers and sets of slides, the latter used for teaching CDF in both English and German. The articles will be posted in chronological order and will be annotated to various degrees in order to make them accessible. Writings of the first decade of IDM begin with a critique of behavioral mindset generally, whether in management, coaching, or consulting. They extend the critical approach to organizations initiated by Chris Argyris and Elliott Jaques. These writings reconceptualize the tayloristic shibboleth of "Human Resources" on grounds of developmental thinking, a critique that finds its clearest expression in the forthcoming book by Jan De Visch and Otto Laske on collaborative intelligence (see ). To me, these writings... Read More...

Teams are increasingly in focus as carriers of corporate culture. Collaboration and self-organization have become key- and buzzwords. New notions of what makes an organization 'humane' relative to A.I. and other kinds of 'business software' are emerging, but, alas, without an understanding of levels of adult development, thus without the possibility to differentiate in pragmatic ways how different team members at different levels of adult development relate to, think about, and use new technologies and thereby contribute to team work. Under these circumstances, enabling managers and HR departments to think more complexly and realistically about the integration of technology into human work is of high importance. The 2019 revision of chapter 11 of Measuring Hidden Dimensions, volume 1, of 2005, posted below, will contribute to a better understanding of how different levels of meaning- and sense making influence, if not determine, team members' capability to collaborate and integrate new technologies into their work. The team typology presented here, while 'only' social-emotional, not also cognitive, is a first step toward clarifying issues organizations increasingly grapple with: how role identities and work agreements, meeting practices and corporate culture are shaped by different systems of interpretation grounded in levels of adult development, and... Read More...