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  • Paperback: 406 pages
  • Publisher: Laske and Associates (February 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0982623828
  • ISBN-13: 978-0982623824
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsMeasuring Maturity
By Jon Ebersole on March 14, 2006
Format: Paperback
This is not a book for the faint of heart; just as it purports to show how to "fully engage adults," it will fully engage the reader.

Maturity can be measured. As astounding as it is somewhat outrageous, Otto Laske takes us down a revealing and somewhat scary path to uncover our capacities, and our limitations. Encountering such exact measurement of human capacity and limitation could lead some to feel overwhelmed. For others it will uncover a new horizon full of potential, clarity and hope. You can run, but you cannot hide from this analysis.

This first of four volumes presents the latest advance in the school of developmental psychology initiated in Geneva by Jean Piaget in the mid-20th century. Laske's focus here is not on cognitive but rather social-emotional development. Building primarily on the work of Robert Kegan and his collaborators at the Harvard Univ. School of Education, Laske makes three substantial contributions to the literature.

First, this volume presents a more exacting methodology of analyzing adult developmental levels. Where Kegan built on Piaget's and Kohlberg's work in describing the socio-emotional stages of adult development in subject-object theory, and with his collaborators also created the initial analytical methodology for identifying developmental stages through semi-structured interviews, Laske refines this theory and method by introducing additional precision in measuring developmental risk, potential, and embeddedness.

Second, whereas to date this knowledge has been used in the context of pedagogy and education policy and much less so in clinical psychology and leadership education, Laske makes this knowledge accessible, relevant and usable for a wider professional audience.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsProvocative Proposition
By William F. Ball III on March 21, 2006
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The underlying premise of Otto Laske's new book, Measuring Hidden Dimensions: The Art and Science of Fully Engaging Adults, is that most coaches don't know enough about their clients in a developmental sense, and our clients can't tell us directly what we're missing. Regardless of our skillfulness in listening for content, content alone won't reveal the missing information.

The two missing elements, in Laske's view, are 1) a well grounded knowledge of the research into how adult humans develop, learn, and grow over a lifetime and 2) skillfulness in listening beyond the content of our client's conversation to its structure. Listening for structure, beyond content, is the only way to discern the client's developmental level. These topics are not part of the training and education most coaches receive.

In this book he seeks to remedy that situation, and he does so in a rigorous and comprehensive way. He outlines developmental theories refined over decades of research and describes how coaches can acquire skillfulness in listening for the structure of our clients' conversations using those theories and models.

In addition to making the case for the "why" of developmental listening, this book has a lot of the "how" and a number of examples, exercises, and case studies through which the reader can strengthen his or her mastery of the concepts. Though this book does an excellent job of introducing and explaining these concepts, mastery of their application is another story. This reviewer's learning journey to acquire those skills has shown that a significant amount of supervised practice is required to master those skills. Reading any book alone about human development and developmental listening will not suffice.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA new way of thinking about "best fit" matching of people and organizations
By Coach Greg W on March 5, 2006
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Here, finally, is a book addressing profound issues in HR/OD, such as why focusing on workforce "competencies" is necessary but NOT SUFFICIENT for formulating and implementing human capital strategies. Digging into developmental research, the author shows in minute detail that performance stems from capability, not competencies, and that capability is anchored in people's level of adult maturity and their systems thinking capacity.

This solid introduction to developmental interviewing and analysis, equips the reader with new tools for re-thinking mission-critical workplace issues: the human capital scorecard, succession planning, leadership development, team building, and recruitment, to name but a few.

The Appendix, in particular, shows the concrete applications of what the book is really about: creating effective interventions based on DEEP rather than the typical shallow inferences about how people make sense of their world, and what this means for individual employees, teams and the entire organization.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA must for anyone in the "helping" professions
By Bernardo on April 16, 2009
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This is more than a book, it is manual to understand, in a very methodical way, each stage and level of human development, within the most frequent ones found in human populations. Professor Laske has succeeded in synthesizing the works of Kegan, the Kohlberg School from Harvard, Adorno and The Frankfurt School, King and Kitchener, and Jacques, into the most comprehensive and precise methodology of evaluation of human socio-emotional and cogntive development. This manual gives the nuts and bolt with exact measures. However, even though the book is extraordinarily comprehensive, beautifully written, and with masterful scholasticism and didactic methodology, it doesn't obviate the need to develop the skills with an experienced practitioner. Professor Laske's Interdevelopmental Institute provides those tools to complete what can be started with this manual and develop into a competent constructive developmentalist.
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