Articles by Otto Laske – Page 3 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

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...

Manifesto against Taylorism

June 30, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske Team Coaching, Team Development

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This manifesto decries the ‘terrible’ simplifications that tayloristic managment theories colonizing HR inflict upon the capabilities of human beings working in organizations. See for yourself how little of being human remains when you reduce human capabilities to mere competences and then ask contributors to add value for others than themselves. This manifesto consists of the...

Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: Book Introduction Session with Jan De Visch

June 30, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske Team Development

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In this slide set, the co-authors introduce their just launched book entitled ‘Practices of Dynamic Collaboration’, Springer 2020. Book Discovery Session May 2020 OL

On some crucial issues in adult-developmental theory

June 30, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Dia;ectical epistemology

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In this essay, i make the case that a new theory of adult development is needed that is no longer a one-sidedly ‘left-hemisphere’ enterprise. By this annotation I refer to the bi-hemispheric structure of the human mind. Specifically, in this essay I assert that a theory of adult development fails for 2 main reasons: (1)...

Developmental Process Consultation in the Age of Agility: Reflections on the Critical Facilitation of Agile Functioning in Organizations

March 27, 2020June 7, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Otto Laske

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One sunny day, the term ‘agility’ woke up and realized it had become a virus. It no longer knew whether it meant a human capability, an organizational characteristic, or both, and what to make of them … It also wondered how to combat the pandemic its human carriers had unleashed. What kind of helpers would...

Living Through Four Eras of Cognitive Development (2012)

March 16, 2020June 3, 2022

Otto Laske DTF

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I came upon an earlier piece of writing of mine entitled as above and thought it might be worth pointing to. It was published in Integral Leadership Review, and is found at Here I only republish the article’s abstract. My interest in this article of 8 years ago was renewed by reading Iain McGilchrist’s “The...