CDF Team Typology – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

A Guide to Listening in Meetings Based on DTF

August 22, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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In this 2nd “inspiration session” regarding the book “Practices of Dynamic Collaboration”, Jan De Visch and Otto Laske focus on what DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework, can teach a person or group about enlarging and deepening their ‘internal workplace’ through thought-form based listening. Thought forms are shown to be more than simply conversation starters...

Applying Bhaskar’s Four Moments of Dialectic to Reshaping Cognitive Development as a Social Practice using Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

July 23, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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In this chapter for volume 2 of Meta-Theory dedicated to the memory of Bhaskar, delayed in its publication since 2014 and forthcoming at Routledge at the end of 2020, I outline a dialectical epistemology and CDF teaching method for absorbing Bhaskar’s legacy into integral thinking. I do so since both are presently absent from the...

Increasing the collaborative intelligence of teams by using deep dialogue practices

July 22, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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Team collaboration has become a pivot of organizational success. If people had an intuitive awareness of the structure of their thinking, team work would be a lot more effective since a greater mutual understanding and decision making would prevail. Such an awareness being absent, what meta-cognitive strategies can we use to heighten such an awareness?...

Chapter Abstracts, Practices of Dynamic Collaboration, Springer 2020, by De Visch & Laske

January 2, 2020June 3, 2022

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

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In this new publication, the authors extend their thinking about the adult-developmental foundations of organizational work beyond their 2018 book on collaboration, by putting their focus on 5 specific organizational practices that together constitute the mainstay of organizational work. They directly address managers’ thinking at three successively higher levels, providing them with a large number...

Cognitive Coaching as a Tool for Building Enabling Environments in Distributed-Leadership Organizations: An Introduction to the Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF)

December 5, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, collaborative intelligence, Deep Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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In the set of slides attached to this blog, the reader finds my presentation on cognitive coaching of January 2019, presented to a London consulting firm, MDV. The purpose of my workshop was to teach consultants a new form of developmental assessment and, based on it, of developmental thinking that is increasingly in demand in...

How Mature is Your Team?: Learn How to Find Out in the Set of Slides Below.

October 3, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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More and more, teams carry the organizational workload. The extent and quality of their collaboration is becoming a focus of practical and theoretical attention. However, a developmental theory of teams, whether social-emotional or cognitive, does not exist. What is clear is that the hidden (= developmental) dimensions of team performance are now defining companies’ competitive...