This is a book that has been praised often and I do feel there is a lot of good in it and that it does deserve much of that praise. I must say, however, that there is quite a bit of this book that gets too technical to really do much good. I feel that there was too much effort to expound on the seven habits when everything could have been presented in a much simpler way. Don't get me wrong, there are things in this book that are simply golden. Personally I took away the idea that we must "shift of paradigms." In other words, there are many times when one must shift their entire way of thinking to get in a proper alignment. There is valuable info here but it reads like a college text. As long as you have a highlighter on hand for the good stuff, you'll be fine.