In today’s fast-paced rapidly changing business environment – the new reality – you must involve all your employees in the success of your Company. Every employee must be aware of the processes they use to execute their duties and continually be searching for ways to do their job better—error free. You must create a very efficient money-making Lean organization to survive and compete with the best of companies in the new business reality. This means becoming a “World Class” Organization optimizing all the productive resources at your disposal. The talent—your employees, the equipment—your business systems employed properly and materials that meet or exceed your Customers’ requirements. The Strategic Planning Process and Lean business drivers described in this book are tools that virtually any company – big or small – can afford to use to create a “World Class” Company able to compete in today’s new business reality. A return on your investment should come immediately after you put the tools to work in your business. The Lean drivers, best applied with a robust Strategic Planning Process, are Mistake Proofing; Self-Directed Cross Functional Teams; The Workout Process; Flexibility; Succession Planning and Expense Control. Inherent in all of these tools are the elements of employee motivation and empowerment. Any one of these tools can be used separately but taken together they will enable you to build a very lean money-making business. Authors Robert Devine and Ronald Buckley are successful entrepreneurs and business leaders with operating experience from start-up to multi-nationals. They have run and grown small companies and divisions into some of the most successful well-known corporations in America. Their focus is to partner and provide small and mid-sized companies the guidance, assistance and management systems necessary to create enterprise value in good and in bad times. Bob and Ron are having fun helping CEO's and Management Professionals grow their companies by optimizing all available resources. An investment made in reading this book will prove fruitful not only to the reader but also to all those individuals over whom the reader has direct and indirect influence.