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4 Crucial Lessons From the Founder of Honda to Create a Company That’ll Succeed
Begin by making the company better than you are
I’ve never been a fan of cars. I still don’t even own a driver’s license at 30. Yet, I can’t deny I am amazed by all the founders of automobile companies.
Their creations revolutionized the world. Without cars, most of us would never have had the opportunity to go further than a few kilometers away from our homes.
One founder I find incredible was Soichiro Honda, the founder of the Japanese car manufacturer Honda, currently the sixth-largest automobile company in the world. In the current top 10 manufacturers, it’s the most recently founded automobile company that isn’t from China.
Soichiro Honda was a great businessman and his beliefs were what helped the company take off. Here are a few lessons we should all learn from him.
Don’t Hire People You Understand
My previous company’s management was awful. In my three years there, they cut everybody who had different opinions than them and hired others that would follow directives without questioning anything.
One day, the company announced they would start paying overtime hours. A month later, when they were…
