Joe Gibbs Racing President Dave Alpern on "Taking the Lead" and leading like Jesus
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dave Alpern is the President of Joe Gibbs Racing.
Back in the early 1990's, Dave started his career as an unpaid intern selling t-shirts for the newly formed Joe Gibbs Racing Team. Now, three decades later, he’s the president of JGR with more than 500 employees
Dave's new book “Taking the Lead: Winning Business Principles That Fuel Joe Gibbs Racing” released in June 2021
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| 1:02.2 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
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| 1:30.0 | I would love to hear from you. And today we got another great guest on the show and a wonderful |
| 1:36.4 | conversation with Dave Alpern. He is the president of Joe Gibbs Racing. Now, he started his career |
| 1:44.0 | working with Joe Gibbs Racing as an unpaid |
| 1:47.2 | intern selling T-shirts and the newly formed Joe Gibbs Racing. And now here he is, |
| 1:53.6 | almost 30 years later, and he is the president of Joe Gibbs Racing. He's been that way since |
| 1:58.7 | 2016. He's leading a team of more than 500 employees. |
| 2:03.8 | We were talking after we recorded the podcast about just being the president of a company |
| 2:08.7 | in the midst of a pandemic and getting his teams ready and in the playoffs for NASCAR, just so much |
| 2:14.5 | going on. And Dave Alpern is leading the way. |
| 2:17.8 | He's also an author, and he's got a new book called Taking the Lead, Winning Business |
| 2:23.6 | Principles that fuel Joe Gibbs Racing. |
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