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Articles by 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.

AI Creativity

Published: Aug 28, 2023 12:13 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1870
Category: Columns, Technology | Tags: Leadership

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 chic...

Integration of Resources

Published: Jul 26, 2023 8:41 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1603
Category: Columns, Expert Advice | Tags: Social Media, Marketing, Search, Sales, Jobs

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Black Swan Events and Their Impact on Business

Published: Jun 28, 2023 5:35 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1817
Category: Columns, Expert Advice | Tags: Remote Work, Contingency, Staffing

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 ...

Do You Know What Your Clients Want?

Published: Apr 26, 2023 11:20 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1596
Category: Columns, Expert Advice | Tags: Clients, Law

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 ma...

Overcome These Common Fee-Based Objections

Published: Mar 27, 2023 1:35 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1656
Category: Productivity, Recruiting | Tags: Talent Acquisition, Contingency, Candidates, Recruiting, Marketing, Retainer, Clients, Search, Hiring, Jobs

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. W...

Working With (Not Against) Others

Published: Feb 27, 2023 3:22 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1450
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Productivity, Recruiting | Tags: Clients, Jobs, Law, Leadership

Working on one’s own is easy if you are a hermit and living off the land. Having said this, it is interesting to see how many folks operate as if they are independent of others and don’t c...

Employment Shortages and the Supply Chain

Published: Oct 27, 2022 1:36 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1591
Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Productivity | Tags: Contingency, Staffing, Jobs

EMPLOYMENT SHORTAGES. Although the employment rate is at an all-time low, not seen in 70 years, the number of jobs added is at an all time high, other than the months following the months post ...

Succession Planning and More

Published: Sep 29, 2022 12:06 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1564
Category: Columns, Expert Advice | Tags: Candidates, Recruiting, Law

Having just gotten back from London, after The Queen passing and seeing the new King Charles III and looking lost irritable and confused as described by The British Guardian and being woefully unprepa...

Crime and Punishment

Published: Aug 25, 2022 1:55 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1471
Category: Expert Advice | Tags: Jobs, Law

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 g...

Teamwork and Loyalty

Published: Jul 22, 2022 1:55 PM
By Michael Neidle | Viewed: 1559
Category: Expert Advice | Tags: Social Media, Search, Sales, Jobs, Law

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 conte...