In a business that makes or moves things, your people strategy isn’t separate from your business strategy. It is your business strategy. This is the practical playbook I wish every leader in our world had: how to stop the turnover bleeding, build a real people function without a giant HR team, and lead a workforce where most of the work happens on a floor, not at a desk. Written for the leader running the company, in plain language, by someone who’s spent 25 years doing the work.