What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

Tom Peters is co-author of In Search of Excellence--the book that changed the way the world does business, and often tagged as the best business book ever. Almost 20 books and thirty plus years later, he's still at the forefront of the "management guru industry" he single-handedly invented.  In those 35 years since writing In Search of Excellence, Tom has never stopped studying what's new and making his best predictions for what's to come next. This conversation focuses all Tom's knowledge on how to manage your business in this time of exponentially accelerating change. Not surprisingly, he has a great deal to say about people being the #1 thing you should be focusing on when striving for Excellence. Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere “Uncover your talents. Discover your dream job. Thrive in YOUR culture.” Sign up for Culture Finders today at www.CultureFinders.com MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” https://tompeters.com/

Vanessa Van Edwards is a national bestselling author and founder of Science of People. Vanessa is renowned for teaching science-backed people skills to audiences around the world. On this episode Vanessa shares tangible skills to improve interpersonal communication and leadership, including her insights on how people work. Get ready for Vanessa to go over  her methods for turning “soft skills” into actionable, masterable frameworks that can be applied in daily life. Vanessa's Episode Notes Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere “Uncover your talents. Discover your dream job. Thrive in YOUR culture.” Sign up for Culture Finders today at www.CultureFinders.com MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” https://www.scienceofpeople.com/ Vanessa's Book Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People  

Safi Bahcall is one of the few 2nd time guests on What Got You There which should tell you how much Sean respects him! Safi was first featured on episode #126 , if you have not heard that pause this and checkout that episode! Safi was a former physicist turned biotech CEO where he went on to lead his company to IPO and serve as the CEO for 13 years. Safi is also author of the bestselling book Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries which is on Bill Gate’s must read list. Safi's Episode Notes Safi's Episode Transcript Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere “Uncover your talents. Discover your dream job. Thrive in YOUR culture.” Sign up for Culture Finders today at www.CultureFinders.com MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” https://www.bahcall.com/

Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author of the new book Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life.  A native of Istanbul, he studied astrophysics at Cornell University and served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. Varol later became a law professor at Lewis & Clark College. On this episode Ozan discusses strategies and frameworks learned from his time as a rocket scientist that we can all use to make advances in our own lives! Ozan's Episode Notes Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere “Uncover your talents. Discover your dream job. Thrive in YOUR culture.” Sign up for Culture Finders today at www.CultureFinders.com MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” Ozan's Website Ozan's Book How To Think Like a Rocket Scientist 

François Rochon, is the president and portfolio manager of Giverny Capital. François founded Giverny on his investment philosophy of owning outstanding companies for the long term and that philosophy has helped him in having one of the best investing track records there is. If you invested $100,000 with François in 1993 that same $100,000 would be worth about $4.5 million today. But if you invested that same $100,000 only in the market you’d have just over $1 million. François is truly a legend in the investment world. On this episode François discusses his investment principles, his approach to lifelong learning, dealing with your failures and how art is at the center of his life! Episode Notes Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT”  

Michael Mauboussin is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. Michael is currently Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global. Michael has also held roles as Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management, he was a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, and he was Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management.  Mr. Mauboussin has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and currently is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Sante Fe Institute. Michael's Episode Notes  Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” http://michaelmauboussin.com/ Michael’s Books The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing  More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition   Michael’s Investing Essay’s

A Special Agent for the United States Secret Service for over 12 years, Evy Poumpouras was on the Presidential Protective Division for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. She has also protected presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush. During her career, she was a criminal investigator, worked undercover, and was an interrogator for the Secret Service’s elite polygraph unit highly trained in the art of lie detection, human behavior, and cognitive influence. Evy’s heroic efforts as a first responder during the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City earned her the U.S. Secret Service Valor Award. On this episode Evy dives deep on her new book Becoming Bulletproof that teaches you how to develop your mindset, how you can protect yourself and strengthen your mental resilience and confidence! Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” https://www.evypoumpouras.com/ Evy's book Becoming Bulletproof  Evy's Instagram 

David Cote was formerly Chairman and CEO of industrial giant Honeywell and is currently Executive Chairman of Vertiv Holdings Co. During 16 years as CEO and/or Chairman of Honeywell, he grew the company's market capitalization from around $20 billion to nearly $120 billion, delivering returns of 800 percent and beating the S&P by nearly two and a half times. Cote was named CEO of the Year by Chief Executive Magazine in 2013 and was recognized as one of the World’s Best CEOs by Barron’s for five straight years (2013-2017). On this episode Dave shares his story of being the first in his family to graduate high school to becoming one of the best CEO’s in the world. The life lessons Dave shares are ones you won’t want to miss!  Episode Show Notes Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” David's Book Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term

On What Got You There’s milestone 200th episode Sean talks with Chris Fussell who spent 15 years on U.S. Navy SEAL Teams and is a Partner at the McChrystal Group Leadership Institute. He is the author of One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams, and a co-author of the New York Times bestseller Team of Teams. Chris also served as Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal during McChrystal's final year commanding a Joint Special Operations Task Force fighting Al Qaeda around the globe. Since leaving active duty in 2012, Fussell has also served as a Senior Fellow for National Security at New America, sits on the Board of Directors for the Navy SEAL Foundation, is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and teaches at Yale University's Jackson Institute. If you want to know what it takes to lead and build teams then this is the episode for you! Episode Show Notes Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” https://www.mcchrystalgroup.com/people/christopher-fussell/ https://twitter.com/fussellchris?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-fussell-56947a32/

Maria Konnikova is a Harvard and Columbia educated psychologist, author and, in recent years, professional poker player. Over the last year Maria stepped away from her job and entered into the world of poker to write her new book about poker and the balance of skill and luck in life called  The Biggest Bluff.  The Biggest Bluff follows Maria’s immersion in the world of poker, from novice to professional, under the tutelage of one of the greatest players in the game, Erik Seidel. But this is not a book about poker. It, rather, is an exploration of the role chance plays in our lives, and how we can learn to play our best game even in the face of mounting odds. How do the skills learned at the poker table translate to the skills required to live a better, more thoughtful and, ultimately, successful life?  The Biggest Bluff isn’t about how to play poker. It’s about how to play the world. Full Episode Notes  Checkout my Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere MCTco Collagen Protein Bars www.mctco.com 20% off with code “WGYT” The Biggest Bluff  https://www.mariakonnikova.com/ https://twitter.com/mkonnikova