{"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":"Ross Rowbury - Previous President, Edelman Japan","slug":"ross-rowbury-previous-president-edelman-japan","published_at":"2026-02-27T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/japan-s-top-business-interviews-podcast-by-dale-carnegie-training-tokyo-japan-294627/ross-rowbury-previous-president-edelman-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/ross-rowbury-previous-president-edelman-japan","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/japanstopbusinessinterviews/Rowbury.mp3?dest-id=2099903","summary":"\"The key thing is that the leader needs to be able to identify where those turning points or tipping points are so that they don't become a bottleneck in that process.\" \"In most cases, I feel like I only have about 30% of the necessary information to make me comfortable to make that decision.\" \"Consensus in a Japanese sense is that a little bit of everyone's idea is taken and included in the final solution so that everyone feels that they've been part of the final solution.\" \"If you want to be successful in business in Japan… it's patience, persistence, and politeness.\" \"In Japan you can do anything. It's just that it will end up taking twice as much time and ended up costing you twice as much money.\" Brief Bio Ross Rowbury was President of Edelman Japan, a leading local business through a decade of rapid growth from roughly 20 people to more than 80, making it one of the largest foreign PR operations in the market. He first arrived in Japan as a Rotary exchange student in high school and later returned after university to build his career across banking and securities, spending around nine years at a major Japanese broker before moving to foreign brokerages. After a short attempt at entrepreneurship, he shifted into the communications industry by leveraging his finance background in financial PR, eventually moving into senior leadership and today running the Japan business of Edelman, one of the world's largest PR firms. Ross Rowbury's leadership story in Japan is shaped by longevity, humility, and a practical acceptance that \"certainty\" is often a luxury leaders do not get. Having first come to Japan as a teenage exchange student and later returning to start his professional life in finance, he learned early that competence alone does not automatically translate into…","meta_description":"\"The key thing is that the leader needs to be able to identify where those turning points or tipping points are so that they don't become a bottleneck in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4010,"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/ross-rowbury-previous-president-edelman-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/ross-rowbury-previous-president-edelman-japan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}