{"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":"Peter Jennings -  Previous President of Dow Japan and Korea","slug":"peter-jennings-previous-president-of-dow-japan-and-korea","published_at":"2026-03-07T01:39:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627/peter-jennings-previous-president-of-dow-japan-and-korea","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/peter-jennings-previous-president-of-dow-japan-and-korea","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/japanstopbusinessinterviews/Peter_Jennings.mp3?dest-id=2099903","summary":"\"this job is really primarily a people job\" \"if you get the right people, you don't have to spend a lot of time micromanaging; get out of their way and let them do their thing\" \"you have to be the type of boss that people are not afraid to bring bad news\" \"you all have everything you need to be successful at Dow\" \"if you treat Japanese people with integrity, trust, respect, like you would want to be treated like anywhere else in the world, you're going to be fine\" Brief Bio Peter Jennings is President of Dow in Japan and Korea, overseeing a multi-billion-dollar business and thousands of employees across both markets. He joined Dow as an attorney and spent twenty-seven years in legal roles before being unexpectedly tapped for senior business leadership. Before moving to Japan in 2012, he served in Hong Kong as general counsel for Dow Asia Pacific and later returned to the United States for several senior assignments. His transition from legal counsel to country president reflects a career shaped by adaptability, deep institutional knowledge, and a strong people-first philosophy. In Japan, he became Dow's longest-serving president in the market's history, leading cultural renewal, leadership development, diversity initiatives, and a more open, internationally minded operating model inside a long-established Japanese organisation. Peter Jennings presents a compelling case that leadership success in Japan does not begin with technical mastery, perfect language, or rigid adherence to stereotype. It begins with trust. When he arrived in Japan in 2012, one year after the Tohoku earthquake, he came not as a traditional commercial operator but as a long-serving Dow lawyer with deep corporate knowledge and international experience. That unusual path could easily have created dis…","meta_description":"\"this job is really primarily a people job\" \"if you get the right people, you don't have to spend a lot of time micromanaging; get out of their way and le…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3655,"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/peter-jennings-previous-president-of-dow-japan-and-korea/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/peter-jennings-previous-president-of-dow-japan-and-korea.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}