Felix Velarde, heavyweight chairman: Recent Episodes
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When I started out on my brand new portfolio career, I’d already had twenty years as a founder and CEO. And the last thing I wanted, ever again, was to have to lead. Nirvana for me would be tons of income and no responsibilities. So that’s what I set out to achieve. Way back in […]
Let me just manage your expectations about this article. I want to share some secrets that no normal agency acquirer will tell you. I’m doing this because I was an agency founder and CEO. I sold a bunch of agencies. I scaled a ton of agencies. Then I started buying agencies, and now I scale […]
I witnessed a genuine mic-drop moment recently. Allow me to set the tone for a moment… Leadership starts when you get stuck. One step forwards, two steps backwards. Feast and famine. Dream still out of reach. (That was me for too many years.) This year it’s especially difficult because you actually have an excuse. (Though […]
I keep hearing that it’s become impossible to find or even keep good people. It turns out the major consultancies are hoovering up talent wholesale. Big transformation is going in-house with entire teams cherrypicked straight out of agencies, leaving leaders bereft and bewildered. At our consulting firm 2Y3X we guarantee to at least double our […]
Video: Top 10 learnings from 2Y3X Felix Velarde shares the fundamentals for business leaders gathered from five years of successfully implementing the 2Y3X programme.
Announcing 2Y3X MENA 2Y3X, the growth acceleration programme with a five-year track record of doubling participating companies’ revenue, is launching in the Middle East and North Africa. United Kingdom-based 2Y3X has signed an agreement with LINK Advisory, the UAE-based management consultancy, to deliver the 2Y3X® Programme throughout the Middle East region and North Africa (MENA). […]
I know what we did last summer This is quite a personal post, which I’ve been thinking about writing but held off for a while. About what we got wrong and what we did right. And what the future holds. Coronavirus was a big, clanging blow. We already knew there was a recession coming (it […]
Are we nearly there yet? When I was five – a really, really long time ago – my sisters and I used to call, “Are we nearly there yet?” from the back seat of my parents’ Austin Maxi on every single trip. How boring we must have felt the journeys, and how tedious our refrain […]
What’s the worst that can happen? Things are getting serious. And like any serious situation, as a leader you must give it the appropriate thought. Over thirty years or so I’ve worked with some incredible people who have taught me lots of decision-making tools ranging from the incredibly complex (Bayesian Inference) to the inane (gut […]
Five ways to break leadership procrastination When you’re a leader, it’s usually because you’re great at getting others to believe in you. Sometimes it’s because you’re good at making decisions. Some decisions are of course difficult. In the hierarchy of things to decide on in any business, as the leader yours are the decisions that […]
How to win business in a recession I speak to a lot of agencies. I meet with owners several times each week. And lately most of them have talked about the slowdown. Decisions are being delayed (on huge accounts as well as small), budgets dematerialise, and even on wins, the available fees are mysteriously lower […]