Management Hall of Fame: Leading Management Gurus

Soichiro Honda
Honda Motors - (1906-1992)

• "To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection." (Soichiro Honda)

Key Work

• Soichiro Honda started in business as a car mechanic 
• Founds Tokai Seiki Heavy Industry (TSHI).
• Cofounds Honda with Takeo Fujisawa.
• D Type motorcycle - the Dream - manufactured and becomes the leading motorcycle manufacturer in Japan
• Production of Cub begins.
• Honda sports motorcycle team won the team prize at the Isle of Man TT races
• Opens dealership in United States. Super Cub goes into production.
• With excellent engineering and smart marketing (the fastest motorcycle) Honda becomes top-selling  brand in United States outselling Harley-Davidson
• The company went into the automobile business
• More than Ten million Hondas sold in United States. with 
• Honda Accord car being one of the most popular and best selling models in the world
• A mechanic who bypassed Japanese networking system or gakubatsa, and made his own way in business with no help from cronies. 
• He is one of the world's greatest industrialists

Books & References:

• TBU

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