The Executive Edition helps us to appreciate how we think about organization and management, and how our thinking locks us into limited ways of seeing and acting. See your reading as a kind of journey. Enjoy the ideas that you encounter. Use them to gain new perspective on your organization, and on how you think about organization and management in the most fundamental sense. All metaphors usually have something to contribute to our understanding of organization, but some are much more powerful than others.
All metaphors have strengths and weaknesses.
If so, take it as a special focus in one of your study sessions. There are probably many new dimensions that you will be able to bring to light. Try taking an issue that all members of your study group are familiar with, and approach it in this way. You'll be surprised at the new insights that you develop.