Toyota is an awesome company. Simply amazing, by any standards. If you visit Nagoya, you will meet a few million Toyota fanatics – and they have something epi

Toyota is an awesome company. Simply amazing, by any standards. If you visit Nagoya, you will meet a few million Toyota fanatics – and they have something epic to pride themselves on. Honda, likewise, is a powerhouse of innovation, and the only Japanese manufacturer with essentially a singular brand, excluding the Acura name used in certain countries. Both are phenomenal lessons in how to dominate a key market. Both were brilliant at motivating employees – galvanizing a willing workforce by turning convention on its head. The OP's point about Steve Jobs is that he brought his team in for a huddle, and gave them the play, and some of them are still running it, even after leaving Apple, and after Steve left us.