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The Game Changer Life

#40: How to Build an Unstoppable Culture w/ David Gillum

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dave welcomes special guest David Gillum, General Manager of America's #1 volume Mazda dealership, Galpin Mazda in Los Angeles, California. Together they discuss what it takes to build an unstoppable culture, and how doing so enabled Galpin Mazda to secure its spot as the number one Mazda dealer in the United States.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk about how to build an unstoppable culture.

0:20.0

Here in our Agora Hills, California studio,

0:23.4

I have a special guest with me that is going to share some wisdom.

0:26.8

David Gillum, who's the general manager of Galpin Mazda.

0:30.4

He's also attending a seminar that we're holding here.

0:33.1

Was gracious enough to share his time, David.

0:35.9

Welcome.

0:36.5

Thank you very much for having me, Dave.

0:38.3

For those who may not be familiar with the automotive industry or with the area here in Los Angeles,

0:45.0

tell us a little bit about the Galpin organization. Give us some background. They were going to

0:48.9

talk about what you took over and how you created a different culture and the results you got

0:53.6

because they're very applicable lessons there.

0:55.6

Yeah, absolutely.

0:56.6

Tell us about Galpin, David.

0:57.6

So Galpin has been around for over five decades and our owner is Bert Bachman.

1:04.2

Yeah.

1:05.2

Who's an incredible man and very inspirational in my career.

1:08.3

And we're located in the San Fernando Valley, the heart of the valley, and off

1:12.9

Roscoe Boulevard.

1:13.8

And Bert really started everything at Galpin with Galpin Ford.

1:18.2

They've been the number one Ford dealer for just under 30 years.

1:22.0

Number one, now it's hard to be number one at anything for two or three years in a row,

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