SOICHIRO HONDA

DRIVEN AT THE CORE BY A DREAM!

 ABOUT
• Born In November 17, 1906
• He was born in Yamahigashi.
• At 15, without any formal education, Honda left
home and headed to Tokyo to look for work.
• He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in
1922.
• Thereafter he left that to start his own auto repair
business in 1928 at the age of 22.
 WAY TO SUCCESS
• 1906 15 yrs At age of 15, without any formal
education, Soichiro Honda left to Tokyo, 270
kilometers away from his home town, to take an
apprenticeship at an automobile repair shop

• 1921 31 yrs Honda invented his first piston ring

.
• 1945 42 yrs Soichiro Honda incorporates Honda
Technical Research Institute and renames it
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., capitalized at one
million yen.
• 1948 43 yrs Honda introduced his 98cc two-
stroke motorcycle appropriately named 'Dream‘.
• 1954 49 yrs Honda leads Japan in motorcycle
production volume .
• 1955 52 yrs Honda launches Super Cub
motorcycle in Japan, helping make Honda the
sales leader .
• 1958 53 yrs Honda establishes American Honda
Motor Co., Inc. The Super Cub, the Dream and
the Benly motorcycles are the first products.
• 1959 57 yrs Honda was the top selling
motorcycle brand
 LEADERSHIP STYLE
“Some dream to escape reality, some to change it forever”
• Soichiro Honda was a TRANSFORMATIONAL
leader and working for him was a wonderful
and uplifting experience.
• Honda injected enthusiasm and energy into
people around him and they helped him to
achieve great things.
• Leaders of this type have the ability to put
passion and energy into everything. They care
about you and want you to become successful.
 MOTIVATION
“Success represents the 1% of your work which
results from the 99% that is called failure.”
• Soichiro Honda had the clear aim and created a
trustworthy atmosphere in the company.
• People recognized his total determination to
succeed and to establish an engineering business.
• Soichiro Honda placed human initiative and
attention to all workers on the first place.
• He tried to create a better environment for his
employees, attract specialists and motivate them
to do their work in the best possible way.
• He was the innovator and was against the
hierarchy management structure.
• Honda understood that encouraging his
worker’s personal development, their wish for
self-actualization will bring him success in
business.
• Honda did not admit defeat and could risk
everything he had achieved for the sake of his
beliefs and ideas. These thoughts also rubbed
onto the shoulders of his employees.
 TEAM BUILDING
“If you hire only those people you understand, the
company will never get people better than you are. Always
remember that you find outstanding people among those
you don’t particularly like”
• Soichiro Honda had the ability to create a healthy
working atmosphere within the team.
• Honda focused efforts and activities of a team for
achieving the desired goal – effective and
successful team work.
• He realized that although team work and team
building suppose many challenges, the final result
from a high performance team is worth all the
efforts and time spent on achieving it.
 “I associate with anybody– rich, poor it doesn’t make
any difference. I prefer to have the principle of
equality of people rather than a class distinction of
people.”
• Honda understood the way a team plays as a
whole determines its success and he treated others
as equal and often worked in a workshop with his
employees being the owner of a corporation.
 DETERMINATION

   “We must remember that one determined

person can make a significant difference,
and that a small group of determined
people can change the course of history.”
 LEARNINGS
• Openness To Experiences.
• Pragmatic, Transformational and Charismatic
Leader.
• Person Job Fit.
• Team Work.
• Determination.
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