A really splendid letter from an enigneer at Honda about why Honda works and what that says about how to be successful. Makes me want to run out and start a business. Please, take some time to read the whole thing. Its well worth it.
Try and picture this. On my first day of work, no one told me what to do. On the second day, the same thing happened, and on the third. That’s as much as I could take. I decided to meet with everyone I was coming in contact with to find out more about their individual talents and personalities, and to find out what was going on. Before I knew it, I was developing a picture of how things really were, and who needed what, and I became creatively involved in defining my own participation in relation to the skills I could bring to the table.
Letter to a Young Engineer from a purported Honda employee – Boing Boing Gadgets.
