{"podcast":{"title":"Japan's Top Business Interviews Podcast By Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo Japan","slug":"japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627","podcast_index_feed_id":294627,"rss_url":"https://japanstopbusinessinterviews.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://japanstopbusinessinterviews.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/d/5/9/bd59418f8b4808aa/JapansTopBusinessInterviews.jpg","author":"Dr. Greg Story","episode_count":316,"summary":"Japan's Top Business Interviews is the premier business interview podcast for people who want to know more about business in japan. The guests cover a range of industries and organisation sizes, to present a thorough overview of issues with leading in Japan. If you are a leader, especialy someone leading in Japan, then this is the podcast for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T22:17:14.502274+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627"},"episode":{"title":"Georg Loeer — Previous Head of NRW Global Business Japan","slug":"georg-loeer-previous-head-of-nrw-global-business-japan","published_at":"2026-05-15T22:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627/georg-loeer-previous-head-of-nrw-global-business-japan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627","url":"https://japanstopbusinessinterviews.libsyn.com/georg-loeer-previous-head-of-nrw-global-business-japan","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/japanstopbusinessinterviews/Georg_Loeer.mp4?dest-id=2099903","summary":"\"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 getting the feedback that is extremely important.\" \"Trust is a key word for doing business in Japan.\" \"Leadership is, first of all, to stand up and raise your voice.\" Georg Loeer has spent much of his life connected to Japan, beginning with his birth in Tokyo in 1955 while his father served as a German diplomat. After returning to Japan as a young adult in the 1970s, he studied Japanese intensively at Sophia University and ICU before building a career across banking, investment, trade, and international business development. His career included senior roles with BHF Bank in Frankfurt and Tokyo, Deutsche Bank in Jakarta during the Asian financial crisis, Bayerische Landesbank in Tokyo and Hong Kong, and Eurohypo, where he helped establish operations in Japan. After leaving banking, he founded his own consulting company and later moved into trade and investment promotion through NRW Global Business Japan. His career arc reflects adaptability, cross-cultural fluency, and a practical understanding of how leadership in Japan requires trust, patience, curiosity, and the ability to connect global headquarters with local Japanese realities. Narrative Summary Georg Loeer's leadership story is deeply interwoven with Japan's post-war internationalisation, German-Japanese business relations, and the evolution of foreign financial institutions in Asia. Born in Tokyo and later returning as a young adult, Loeer developed an early appreciation for Japan's cultural depth, regional diversity, and business discipline. His exposure to Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Tokyo, and later the wider Asian region gave him a long lens through which to understand…","meta_description":"\"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 getting th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3485,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627/episodes/georg-loeer-previous-head-of-nrw-global-business-japan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627/georg-loeer-previous-head-of-nrw-global-business-japan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}