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Mike Neidle is President of Optimal Management incorporated 1994 (www.optimal-mgt.com), 650-759-9154, mentoring staffing owners and managers to maximize sales, profits and company value. He was Executive VP for Snelling and other staffing firms; CEO, CFO and Marketing Director for start ups to Fortune 500 Corporations. He has an MBA and a chemical engineering degree.
By Michael Neidle | Thu Aug 25, 2022
Category: Expert Advice
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Dostoevsky but has a message for today. The focus of the story is about someone who convinces himself that with his ill-gotten gains, he could liberate himself and go on to perform great deeds and deludes himself that his crimes were justifiable if...
By Michael Neidle | Fri Jul 22, 2022
Category: Expert Advice
Teamwork is a much-overused word and is applied to a variety of situations and circumstances. I would like to focus on teamwork in a corporate setting, but first would like to provide some context here in other settings and current events where teamwork both failed and succeeded. The Uvalde...
By Michael Neidle | Wed Jun 22, 2022
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Recruiting
It is easy to settle for average or below average these days as the US employee rate of some 3½% and there is a severe scarcity of qualified people in many occupations. Healthcare professionals rate is 0.3%, office managers are at 1.1%, high-tech is 1.3%, managerial jobs are at 1.4%...
By Michael Neidle | Mon May 16, 2022
Category: Columns, Productivity, Recruiting
Here are more case studies from some of our management consulting engagements over the last 2+ decades. This company had just completed the start-up phase of the business, going from operating from the home of one of the partner’ founders, to a commercial office space. Billings at that time were...
By Michael Neidle | Tue Apr 26, 2022
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Productivity, Trends
There is a lot to tell here and what that means for you and your company. We will just deal with five areas here. AGREEMENTS YOU RELIED UPON MAY MEAN NOTHING. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine was told that if they gave up their vast stock of nuclear weapons, that...
By Michael Neidle | Wed Mar 30, 2022
Category: Columns, Expert Advice
In the famous words of President Ronald Reagan, “trust but verify” were his words used in creating the INF treaty with the Russians some 25 years ago. It more then ever applies to the same parties today, but also is applicable in most areas of business today. It...
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