This guy is the king of leadership theory. Holy cow. And kudos for being able to write over 500 pages on such an abstract topic. You, sir, definitely have me beat in the IQ department.That said, this book should have been about 75 pages shorter. The amount of extraneous words Senge shoves into interminably long sentences (I’m taking like three lines of small text without a period) is mind blowing, but also mind FRYING. OH MY GOD INSERT MORE PERIODS, PETE. “Ands” and commas get exhausting after 300 pages of non abstract theory, never mind abstract theory. I’m only in my second leadership course and I feel like I’ve been clobbered over the head with info here-I just wish Smarty Senge could have been more concise. “To” is better than “in order to.” In stead of listing things 1-5 and then detailing them out in summary, just do the summary and number each item as it is covered. And I don’t need a review of the chapter I JUST READ to start the NEXT CHAPTER. I mean I’m not nearly as smart as the author but… I can recall what a read a page ago. It boggles me that this is the second edition yet it is still written with such insufferable (at times) grandiloquence.Let’s do some systems thinking exercises around brevity, Pete. I’ll facilitate. Please?Writing style and profuseness aside, however, I learned a crap ton from this book. I especially resonated with the “shifting the burden” principle and as a future other kind of principal I vow to seek more long term, lasting solutions than short term symptomatic ones. I appreciate all the knowledge in this book and recommend it to anyone interested in taking part in any sort of leadership role.I also recommend either a stiff drink or screaming into a pillow after emerging from the abstract jungle of words you must cut through to lean all Peter wants to teach you.It’s worth it though.