How do you get from the sales floor to the boardroom? Brad Anderson‘s 36-year journey with Best Buy began when he left seminary school and decided to work as a sales clerk at a music store. That store would later become Best Buy, and he would go from a (by his own admission) poor sales clerk, to CEO. Brad joins the Down to Business Podcast to discuss his journey and what he learned along the way. If you haven’t already, make sure to subscribe, rate, and review previous episodes of the show on iTunes.

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