Rick Andrade

Rick Andrade is an investment banker and market advisor in Los Angeles, Ca, where he helps CEOs and business owners buy, sell, and finance middle-market companies. Rick earned his BA and MBA from UCLA, along with his Series 7, 63, & 79 FINRA securities licenses. He is also a CA Real Estate Broker and blogs at www.RickAndrade.com on issues important to business owners.

Rick Andrade is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, for more information, visit the author’s website CLICK HERE.

Success and Leadership

How to Make Better Decisions in Tough Times

Success and LeadershipRick Andrade

IN my last article CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession (CEOWORLD magazine) only weeks ago the perennial economic prognosticators had the U.S. economy headed for tough times as soon as this fall and into 2023. Why? As the Federal Reserve Bank raises short term interest rates to stem inflation,...

CEO Agenda

CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession

CEO AgendaRick Andrade

“Fear is the mind killer,” wrote best-selling author Frank Herbert in his notoriously popular sci-fi novel Dune. You must not let fear overcome your senses or you will fail to respond to rational thought he portended. It’s important to anticipate, be prepared and have a plan. So, when darkening economic...

Success and Leadership

It’s a Tale of Two Markets; The Solution to Sourcing from Asia

Success and LeadershipRick Andrade

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” But no matter where in the Dickens your business profits fall on that spectrum these days, we can all agree we indeed live in challenging times, especially if you’re an off-shore manufacturer. For the last few decades or...

CEO Advisory

It’s 2022… If it’s not recyclable, why does it exist?

CEO AdvisoryRick Andrade

Later in life but before he died at age 87 famed French explorer, naturalist, and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, a man not known to mix metaphors in public once said, “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” He died twenty-five years...

CEO Insights

Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is a few extra Elves

CEO InsightsRick Andrade

It’s the single most frequent request heard around the world. Thousands of CEOs and business owners penning their deepest hopes to the big man, with the white beard, in the red suit. ‘Dear Santa, can I have more workers this year - please?‘ Living and working in a Covid pandemic...

CEO Insider

Vaccinated or Unvaccinated: Should You Mandate?

CEO InsiderRick Andrade

As the Fall approaches what was to be a welcomed Covid recovery season feels more like an endless New Year’s Eve hangover. Instead of following its 1918 Spanish Flu brethren and fading away inside 18 months, the new Covid “Delta” variant which is far more contagious and on the rise...

Tech and Innovation

Hacked…! If only I knew…

Tech and InnovationRick Andrade

It’s 2:43am when your buzzing phone lights up on your night stand. It’s been a good night’s sleep until now; sipping a Mai Tai under a windy palm on a perfect tropical island beach, what could go wrong? “Hello?” Your IT chief apologizes: “Sorry to wake you Boss. But we’ve...

Tech and Innovation

Where is Everybody? Are Big Incentives the Only Way to Attract Good Workers Post-Covid?

Tech and InnovationRick Andrade

It’s happening. America is reopening, and like a sprawling field of bright red poppies the post-Covid consumer is bursting with a renewed self-expression and ready to dance again experts say. Which is great news for the economy and business owners, except for one thing, finding willing workers is tough right...

CEO Agenda

The Great 2021 Vaccine Rollout: When will your employees get it?

CEO AgendaRick Andrade

“Happy New year” shouted the CEO of a middle market manufacturing company on his year-end Zoom call to employees. And for a moment there was pure joy, then a silence, followed by a collective gulp. No doubt history will record the many haunting echoes of a 2020 Auld Lang Syne...

Success and Leadership

It’s Cold Turkey: The Dish on Serving up More Taxes under Joe Biden

Success and LeadershipRick Andrade

They say that in late November 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts the first American Colony held the first American Thanksgiving to celebrate a bountiful harvest with the local Wampanoag Indian tribe. What you might not know is that of the nearly 100 who attended the first feast only 4 were women...

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Rick Andrade

How to Make Better Decisions in Tough Times

CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession

It’s a Tale of Two Markets; The Solution to Sourcing from Asia

It’s 2022… If it’s not recyclable, why does it exist?

Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is a few extra Elves

Vaccinated or Unvaccinated: Should You Mandate?

Hacked…! If only I knew…

Where is Everybody? Are Big Incentives the Only Way to Attract Good Workers Post-Covid?

The Great 2021 Vaccine Rollout: When will your employees get it?

It’s Cold Turkey: The Dish on Serving up More Taxes under Joe Biden

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