11/11/09

Disaster Brings our Business Success

Disasters can also be a lesson that can bring business success. One can take a lesson from the disaster was Soichiro Honda. In 1922, he had to get out of school to wrestle with the pain. He only attended for eight years. Children's new 15-year-old from a small town, be proud of the 10 car repair at crowded. He was appointed as an assistant mechanic, but his work sometimes as a "baby-sitter" the boy is the owner of the shop. Honda dream to become a car mechanic and he never got the chance .. He then asked permission to go home if it does not become mechanical, then packed his bags and quit his job and left the big city. He not only resigned but try and work hard to achieve his dream. Six months later, after a disaster, garage mechanics needed because some did not come back, he was called to help fix the car, finally opened opportunities for him to achieve these dreams. When she finally went to school.

Like other countries, Japan was hit by a large depression in the 1930s. In 1938, Soichiro Honda was a student, when he started to open the workshop and developed the concept of ring-shaped piston. He plans to offer the idea to Toyota was working day and night, often sleeping in the garage. He always believes that he can refine the design and produce a useful product. To start a business using the capital of jewelry from his wife. When the draft was made sempel and offered to Toyota, the piston does not meet the standards. The technicians laugh at his design. Despite the failure, he remained firm to his guns and learn from failure. After two years redesigning survive and, eventually won a contract from Toyota. Then Soichiro Honda built a factory to meet demand for Toyota. But in the bomb factory twice during the war to become messy. He remains determined to fulfill his dream to build a factory, but once again the factory was destroyed by a massive earthquake. He was never out of the disaster.

After the war finished, there is a shortage of fuel, forcing people to walk or use bicycles. Honda makes small engines and can be installed on the bike, but the difficulty of material, so that does not meet the demand. Honda wrote a letter to 18,000 bicycle shop owner, but the results just get a little money. However, with these makeshift money, he makes small engines for bicycles. In the first model, takes place in order to work properly, so he developed and adapted continuously until eventually produce a small engine. 'The Super Cub "into reality and success. Success in Japan, Honda began exporting to Europe and America

In the 1970s, fuel scarcity, then in the United States shifted from large vehicles to smaller vehicles. Honda quickly capture this trend. Now, Honda Corporation has a staff of more than 100,000 people in the United States and Japan, in charge of 43 companies in 28 countries, which is one of the largest car company in the world and the company ranked 26 of the most amazing world in 2003. "The views of people in my success is only 1%, but what they do not see 99%, that is my failures" said Soichiro Honda. The disaster led to his success in the business world. Whoever be patient and return that we belong to God, if afflicted with calamity, then Allah will soon put on the best God paradise like.

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