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A Developmental Agenda of Concrete Utopianism: Culture Transformation in the Anthropocene

June 16, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Articles Guests, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Coaching, Team Development, Thought Forms

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This text by Otto Laske and Alessandro Rossi describes the use of the Constructive Developmental Framework as a culture transformation instrument. Pragmatic implementations of CDF are geared to strengthening dialectical thinking in groups, teams, committees, and coalitions, whether commercial, academic, political, or educational, with an eye on increasing collaborative intelligence. The focus of such work...

DTF as a Tool for Creating Integral Collaborations

May 15, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, cognitive Fluidity, Deep Thinking, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development, Thought Forms

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Solving real world problems tests professionals’ present level of cognitive development. A good training ground for working on hard problems in teams is the Case Study Cohort Method (CSCM) developed at the Interdevelopmental Institute. The method consists of a having members of a team assessing an individual’s or team’s level of cognitive maturity debate the...

Contributions to Evidence Based Developmental Coaching

March 24, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske cognitive Fluidity, Developmental Assessment, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Team Development

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This article describes a constructivist approach to coaching based on the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). Such coaching is evidence based, i.e., based on empirical assessments of coachees prior to actual coaching. Coaching plans are based on empirical findings about coachees’ present frame of reference (the way they see the world), meant to guide them toward...

Growing the Top Management Team: A Developmental View of OD

March 8, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Otto Laske, Team Development

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In this paper co-authored with Barbara Maynes,we outline a developmental view of OD. We show that Argyris “theory in use” points to different levels of mental growth, both social-emotional and cognitive. These levels are seen as the program from which theories of action arise in contributors to an organization. An early version of CDF called...

Foundations of Scholarly Consulting: The Developmental Structure/Process Tool

February 22, 2016July 10, 2022

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

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This article of 2000 deepens Argyris’ notion of theory-in-use by recourse to empirical findings of the developmental sciences. It defines “consulting” based on this deeper notion. The article teaches a lesson still not learned in consulting: that theory-in-use has to do with levels of mental growth, both cognitively and social-emotionally, cutting through all “competence models”....

The Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF) as a Talent Finder and Work Design Methodology

February 4, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske Cognitive Dimension, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Otto Laske, Team Development

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In this short article, I highlight the resources of the Constructive Developmental Framework for finding organizational talent and designing a work environment that supports its further growth. CDF as a Talent Finder and Work Design Methodology