Very horribly probably. Though it is a great book, and everyone serious about chess should read it, I think this quote of Anatoly Lein by Jonathan Tisdall in Improve Your Chess Now explains the problem with Kotov best.

"I don't think like a tree - do you think like a tree?"

I believe John Nunn touched on the problems with Kotov's method as well in Secrets of Practical Chess.

The biggest thing to take away from him is the need for a thought process, not necessarily the actual method he describes.