About Michael Neidle

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.

 

Navigating the Business Landscape

  By Michael Neidle  |    Thu Dec 07, 2023

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Productivity

The world is everchanging and one needs to develop strategies to be resilient to deal with different circumstances and use challenges to their advantage. Every crisis opens up an opportunity for those who can steer through it. We will discuss a strategy for dealing with these events and conditions, as...

AI Creativity

  By Michael Neidle  |    Mon Aug 28, 2023

Category: Columns, Technology

AI's Assignment Write a short story about how a chicken was described how he was able to go to college, get an engineering degree, and then how exactly he was able to raise money to build a chicken restaurant and become wealthy and marry a duck and give birth to...

Integration of Resources

  By Michael Neidle  |    Wed Jul 26, 2023

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

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Black Swan Events and Their Impact on Business

  By Michael Neidle  |    Wed Jun 28, 2023

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Black Swan events are reshaping our world. By definition, these are events that are rare and usually unpredictable but have a significant impact on society, politics, and of course business. Although these events individually are rare, in our fast-moving interconnected world, the en mass rate of newly hatched Black Swans...

Do You Know What Your Clients Want?

  By Michael Neidle  |    Wed Apr 26, 2023

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Do you know what your clients, prospects, staff, investors, and constituencies want, (defined here as stakeholders) in order to retain them, or winning them over by placing their trust in you? They may say what they want but may actually want something different. Stakeholders may be subjected to “group-think”...

Overcome These Common Fee-Based Objections

  By Michael Neidle  |    Mon Mar 27, 2023

Category: Productivity, Recruiting

Mike, I work on a model that is either an exclusive contingency or a deposit-based search. I’ve been running into situations where companies tell me they only work contingency or a stated fee. What are some of the best ways to respond when you hear those fee-based objections? Common Fee-Based Objections As...

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