Thought Forms – Page 2 – 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?...

Laske Social Science Archive, Section V: Writings (2015-2019) on DTF, the Dialectical Thought Form Framework

February 21, 2020June 7, 2022

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

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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...

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...

Grundlagen potenzial-orientierter Unternehmen: Einleitung in Dialektisches Denken in Organisationen

December 5, 2019June 8, 2022

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

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Attached to this blog, the reader will find a set of slides presented in a workshop held in Vienna, Austria, in February of 2019, for a company called Four Dimensions Consulting. It was the purpose of the workshop to introduce a German-speaking audience to the cognitive-developmental dimension of organizational work, especially team work. The workshop...