Lean manufacturing includes a lot of pieces. Do you know which one drives most of the benefits?

Lean includes a lot of valuable and important methods and tools, but one of them drives 80% (or more!) of the bottom-line benefits. It's what Taiichi Ohno called "Toyota-Style Industrial Engineering".
Without this foundation, not much else matters. Kaizen is ineffective, Kanban won't work, and Standardization is applied to processes that were never designed right to begin with! "Building A Lean Culture" doesn't make sense.
In this ground-breaking book, Lean veterans Richard Rahn and Gerard Leone lay out the roadmap to "design the perfect Value Stream", without delays, waste or defects. The method has been implemented thousands of times, and in fact is the core strategy of the Toyota Production System.
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Here's what Lean Professionals Are Saying About "The Complete Guide"

Richard Rahn and Gerard Leone have made an awesome contribution to Lean Manufacturing with this book. Here’s why: If you’re spending most of your time on Kaizen projects, there’s a good chance it’s because your Value Stream design has underlying problems. In healthcare terms, you’re treating the symptoms and not the disease. What they are proposing is a sea change in the way you look at Lean, by concentrating first on process design, instead of continuous improvement.

Steven Bonacorsi

President of the International Standard for Lean Six Sigma (ISLSS)

Thorough coverage of all areas of Flow. Rigorous, unique offering of one of the most important Lean and Flow Manufacturing subjects there is! I really enjoyed it, Richard. Very, very beneficial.

Bruce Smythe

President, Interim Transformation Management