Podcast Episodes

Ernie Higa — President, CEO, and Chairman of Higa Industries

"Your biggest asset as an entrepreneur is actually yourself—your own personal strengths"

"You cannot get a cultural translator"

"You have to develop …

2 months, 1 week ago

Meghan Barstow - President of Edelman Japan

"My career, I like to say, is about saving the world one word at a time."

"I love team building. I love creating something from nothing or growing it…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Klaus Meder — Previous President of Bosch in Japan

"You have to make the effort to talk to the people who are decisive"

"You shouldn't be the ambassador or the mail boy"

"Communication is very importa…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Jesper Koll — Global Ambassador for the Monex Group

"Behind every number, there is a leader."

"If you are a player as well as a coach… that's the single best way to actually have the credibility."

"I t…

3 months ago

Georg Loeer — Previous Head of NRW Global Business Japan

"I've always been a very democratic leader." "You have to listen to them, and you have to convince them to work with you." "It is insistence on getti…

3 months, 1 week ago

Jerome Chouchan — President, Godiva Japan

"When you show honesty or your best effort, then people finally recognise you." "You have to find a way to go directly to the consumer and get insigh…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Paul Kraft - Previous Country Manager, Haribo Japan

"The amount of time you need to spend listening in Japan is very high."

"You have to turn up your EQ sensitivity or your EQ radar very, very high."

"…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Wolfgang Bierer — President of Endeavor SBC

"Leadership is really like leading by example." "I come in. I listen a lot." "Do what you say." "You need to gain the trust of the people and show th…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Frank Packard — Founder & Previous President, AAA Partners Japan

"Very few people in finance can make a declarative sentence."

"If you can scale your message from thirty seconds to three minutes, you've got it made…

4 months ago

Jim Weisser — President and Co-founder, SignTime

"The team's the most important thing."

"I didn't listen very well."

"I thought I had most of the answers when I didn't even know the problem."

"Treat…

4 months, 1 week ago