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.

Transformational Leadership Characteristics

• CHARISMA.

• VISION.

• INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION.

• INSPIRATION.

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.”

NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES

• Short tempered• Work Driven

LEARNINGS

• Openness To Experiences.• Pragmatic, Transformational and

Charismatic Leader.• Person Job Fit.• Team Work.• Determination.

REFERENCES

• http://www.myviplife.com• http://www.articlesbase.com• http://www.articlealley.com• http://www.brainyquote.com

Thank You!

• Presented By:-Presentation By:-

ABHISHEK KUMAR

SIZZIL ISLAM CHOUDHURY

NARESH KUMAR N

VINEET SHASHIDHARAN

VINAY KUMAR REDDY K