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Great Personality Henry Ford

“I will build a car for the great multitude….; so low in price that no man will be unable to own one.”
At a Glance:
1863 Born on July 30 in Greenfield Tounship, Michigan.
1879 Left family farm (at the age of 16) and walked eight miles to get his first job in a Detroit Machine shop.
1888 Married Clara Bryant of Greenfield Tounship and moved to 80-acre farm in what is Dearborn today.
1893 Edsel Bryant Ford, only child of Henry Ford and Clara Ford, born.
1896 Completed his automobile, the Quadricycle, and drove it through the streets of Detroit.
1899 Became Chief Engineer and partner in the newly formed company, which produced only a few cars.
1902 Ford resigned over dispute with bankers and the company became the Cadillac Motor Car Co.
1903 After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was officially incorporated. First Model A appeared on the market in Detroit.
1908 Realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of Model T. This vehicle initiated a new era inpersonal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle it on rough roads.
1910 To meet the growing demand for the Model T, Ford’s company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan. Henry combined precision manufacture. Standardized, interchangeable parts, a division of labour etc.
1912 Ford invented the dealer franchise system to sell and service cars. The dealer network rose to 7000 across the country. He campaigned for better roads, which eventually led to an interstate-highway system.
1913 Ford introduced the world’s first continuous moving assembly line at Highland Park and thus pioneered the mass production. This system revolutionized automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. It could churn out a car every 93 minutes.
1914 Ford stunned the world with his greatest contribution ever, i.e., the $ 5 and eight hour day minimum wage in the auto industry then was $ 2-3 for a nine hour shift. The wall street journal called his plan, “an economic crime” and critics everywhere heaped scorn on him.
1921 Ford Motor Company dominated auto production with 55 per cent of the industry’s total production.
1926 Henry Ford focused on air transportation and developed the Tri-Motor airplane.
1927 Production ceased for the model T. By this time, more that 15 million cars had been sold, which was around half the World’s output.
1930 Ford was one of the nation’s foremost opponents of labour unions and was the last automobile manufacturer to unionize his work force.
In Later 1930s
Mobilized his factories for the war effort and produced bombers, Jeeps and tanks for Wrold War-II.
1932 Made first V-8 engine Ford car
1947 Henry Ford died at the age of 83, at Fair Lane mansion, his Dearborn Home.
Remember
It is but for Henry Ford’s drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn’t have middle class today. His lasting contribution to the world of management and engineering was his ‘Invention’ of the Assembly line. More than a engineering invention, it symbolized the manager’s eternal quest for higher productivity and better resource utilization.
Thoughts of Henry Ford
1. There isn’t a person anywhere that isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.
2. I am looking for a lot of men with infinite capacity for not knowing what can no be done.
3. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
4. Obstacles are those frightful thing you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
5. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to be.
6. Thinking is the hardest work, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Some Facts About Henry Ford
· Henry Ford was a genius, though an eccentric. Simplicity was one of his virtues, as he was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics.
· He was from modest. Agrarian Michigan roots. In 1905, his backers at the Ford Motor Company were insisting that the best way to maximize profits was to build a car for the rich. But, instead of listening to his backers, he made a smart move in a crusade that would make him the father of 20th century American industry. When the block Model T rolled out in 1908, it was hailed as America’s Everyman car-elegant in its simplicity and a dream machine not just for engineers but for marketing men as well. This model car made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
· After the model T’s enormous success, the two visionaries from rural Michigan became his friends and business partners. Ford asked Thomas Alva Edison to develop an electric storage battery for the car and funded the effort with $ 1.5 million. Despite all his other great inventions, Edison never perfected the storage battery. Yet ford immortalized his mentor’s inventive genius by building the Edison Institute in Dearborn.
· He made and drove race cars early in his career to demonstrate that his engineering designs had produced reliable vehicles.
· Ford was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1918.
· He owned a controversial newspaper, The Dearborn Independent that published anti-Jewish articles which tarnished his image.
· He promoted the early use of aviation technology.
· He sought way to use agricultural products in Industrial production. Including soybean-based plastic automobile components.
· Ford-s great strength was the manufacturing process-not invention. Long before he started a car company, he was known for picking up loose scraps of metal and wire and turning them into machines. The Model T showed the world just how innovative Ford was at combining technology and markets.
· His company began construction of the world’s largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rough River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. the massive Rouge Plant included all the basic elements needed for automobile production: a steel mill, glass factory and automobile assembly line. All steps in the manufacturing process from refining raw-materials to final assembly of the automobile took place at this plan, thus characterizing Henry Ford’s idea of mass production.
· By the late 1920s, Ford’s company had become so vertically intergrated that it was completely self-sufficient. Ford controlled rubber plantations in Brazil, a fleet of ships, a railroad, 16 coal mines and thousands of acres of timberland and iron-ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota. All this was combined at the gigantic River Rouge Plant, Where more than 1,00,000 men more worked.
· Henry Ford stumbled. It was because he wanted to do everything his own way. This weakness brought him a set-back in the later 1920s. the problem was that for too long he worked on only one model T. Although people told him to diversify, he had developed tunnel vision, He started saying “to hell with the customer”, who can have any color as long as it’s black. He didn’t bring out a new design until the Model A in 1927, and by then General Motor’s was gaining In a sense Ford became a prisoner of his own success.
Secondly, he was running the enterprise without managers. His unparalleled success fell won to near collapse in fifteen short years. It is said that by the time World War-II started, Ford’s market share had fallen to 20 per cent and had not made any profits in these fifteen years.
The great set black came to Henry Ford, when his only son, Fedsel Ford, suddenly died during the second world war. At that time the reality was such that the survival of his company seemed improbable.
The Ford Motor Company might have collapsed even in the post-war period had Henry Ford’s concept of managing business without managers not been changed radically by his grandson and successor, Henry Ford III (son of Edsel Bryant Ford). The story of the revival of the Ford Motor Company begins from 1944, which is one of the epics of American business.

List of Winners of 54th National Film Awards for the Year 2006

Best Film : Pulijanmam
Besh Hindi Film : Khosla Ka Ghosla
Besh Popluar Film : Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Director : Madhur Bhandarker (Trafic Signal)
Best Actor : Soumitra Chatterjee (Podokhep)
Best Actress : Priyamani (Paruthiveeran)
Best Supporting Actor : Dilip Prabhavalkar (Gandhi in ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’)
Best Supporting Actress : Konkana Sen (Omkara)
Best Song : Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Screenplay : Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Lyrics : Lage Raho Munnabhai
Jury Award : Vishal Bharadwaj (Omkara)
Cameraman : Gautam Ghosh (Yatra)

TOP Ten Tallest Statues of the World (Height in metres)

1. Ushiku Daibutsu : Ushiku, Japan=====================120
2. Buddhist statue of Guanyin : Sanya, China=============108
3. Yellow Chinese emperors Huangdi and Yandi : China===103
4. Mother Motherland : Kiev, Ukraine===================102
5. Statue of Peter-1 : Moscow, Russia=====================96
6. Statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji : Mumabi India============94
7. Statue of Liberty : New York, USA=====================93
8. The Motherland statue : Volgograd, Russia==============84
9. Statue of Buddha : Lanshan, China=====================71
10. Christ the Redeemer : Rio-De-Janeiro, Brazjil at the
Peak of 710 m Corcovado Mountain==========================38

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List of IIFA 2008 Awards Winners

Best Film : Chak De India
Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan - Chak De India
Best Actress : Kareena Kapoor- Jaw We Met
Best Director : Shimit Amin- Chak De India
Performance in Supporting Role (Male) :Irfan Khan- Life in A. Metro
Performance in Supporting Role (Female) : Konkana Sen- Life in A. Metro
Performance in a Comic Role : Govinda- Partner
Performance in a Negative Role : Vivek Oberoi- Shootout At Lokhandwala
Music Director : A.R. Rahman. Barso Re Barso Re (Guru)
Best Story : Jaideep Sahini : Chak De India
Lyrics : Javed Akhtar- Main Agar Kahoon (Om Shanti Om)
Playback Singer (Male) : Shaan- Jabse Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Playback Singer (Female) : Shreya Ghoshal- Barso Re (Guru)
Achievment in India Cinema : Mumtaz
Oustanding Contribution to Indian Cinema : Shyam Benegal
Oustanding Contribution by an Indian in International Cinema : A.R. Rahman
Style Idea Awards: Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh were also awarded special awards
Technical Awards
Best Cinematography : Sudeep Chatterjee (Chak De India)
Best Editing : Amitabh Shukala (Chak De India)
Best Sound Recording : Manas Choudhary and Ali Merchant (Chak De India)
Best Sound Re-recording : Anuj Mathur (Chak De India)
Best Screenplay : Jaideep Sahni (Chak De India) and Anurag Basu (Life in a Metro)
Best Art Direction : Sabu Cyril (Om Shanti Om)
Best Special Effects : Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (Om Shanti Om)
Best Costume Designing : Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Sanjiv Mulchandani (Om Shanti Om)
Best Makeup : Bhart-Dorris, Ravi Indulkar & Namrata Soni (Om Shanti Om)

USE FULL TIPS FOR PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

When we talk of ‘personality’, we do not merely mean that a person has an outer charm a smiling face, command over spoken language, or is perfect in appearance. In fact, personality is subject of psychologists to debate, which entails a long discussion, But, in short, they believe that personality is basically, and closely, related to those elements which control our sub-conscious mind and which are reflected in our day-to-day behavior, conduct, attitude and actions. They are internal factors, such as character, willpower, self confidence, inclination (or liking), zeal and others. Besides, in the modern age some external factors (like, colour, looks, attire, style, manners communication skill etc.) are also said to be essential to make one’s appearance pleasing to others in daily affairs, and thus, in a combined form of the two factors it becomes a dynamic personality. Hence, personality is a stable set of internal and external qualities of a person, consisting of physical and mental traits. This dynamic personality is considered as an integral part of stable success in any sphere of life. Charles M. Schwab has said-
‘Personality is to man
What perfume is to a flower.’
Example of a Dynamic Personality
In the era of Mahabharat, there was a boy named Eklavya, who, living in a wretched condition, possessed all requisite qualities of a dynamic personality. He had such a strong urge to become the best archer in the world that he, with his positive and optimistic outlook, perceived a ray of hope in dismal surroundings, and ultimately achieved the goal of his life is as follows:
Once in his boyhood, Eklavya asked his mother for a glass of milk and he was offered the white-clay mixture, which he had to drink as milk. Having a profound interest in archery, he developed his strong will power and aimed to become an ace archer in his life. He, therefore, went in search of a teacher and reached the hermitage Dronacharya to learn the archery under his fold. But Dronacharya flatly refused to teach him as he belonged to the lowest community. That boy was not disappointed by it. Rather he got an inspiration to move ahead for self preparation in order to fight for success.
With his spiritual strength and increased self confidence he immediately resolved to become a champion in the field. He lived in the dense forest alone and made a clay idol of Dronacharya. He paid his respectful greeting to that idol learning archery. By doing the continual practice he soon became so proficient in this art that one day in the forest, on hearing the barking of a dog at a distance, he shot seven arrows at the source of barking sound and fastened the mouth of dog with those arrows.
That dog belonged to Arjun who was disciple of Guru Dronacharya. Arjun was so much surprised to see Eklavya’s expertise, skill and intelligence that he immediately rushed to his guru’s hermitage to report this incident. Hearing so, Dronacharya at one called upon the boy and eagerly questioned him ‘Who’s your teacher?’ Showing him the clay-made idol. Eklavya humbly replied, ‘Sir, you are my teacher.’ Hearing this from his mouth, Dronocharya demanded the thumb of his right hand which Eklavya surrendered unto his feet with pleasure.
The above illustration depicts the personality of Eklavya. As all his behavior, attitude and actions are exhibited in it, one can draw out the elements of personality formation, which are said to be vital for success in one’s life.
Remember………..
Personality development is not a new concept, but it has truly emerged from the ancient Indian epic Shrimadbhagwat Gita. “The feebleness of heart renders the man to emotional weakness that affect all his mental and physical strengths to sap all his interest, self-confidence, vigour and zeal. The inner weakness exercise and adverse effect on his personality; he develops a sense of inferiority’ complex, which draws him to inactiveness. And as such he falls away from the path of his goal and remains as failure in life. A life without purpose stands nowhere in the world”- These were the feelings of Lord Shri Krishna about Arjun upon seeing his behavior, attitude, conduct and action due to his diffidence developed in the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
He, therefore delivered the preachings to Arjun with intent to pour into his heart the characteristic virtues, so that he would remove all the vices and weaknesses from his heat and mind firs, and then prepare humself to fight and lead to the glorious victory through struggle, the ultimate object of his life. Thus, the concept of personality development was, for the first time, brought to the welfare of mankind by Lord Shrikrishna nearly 5227 years before Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi has said-
“All your scholarships would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character (Personality) and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.”