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.

 

Teamwork and Loyalty

  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...

The Employment Picture

  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%...

More Case Studies

  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...

What The Ukraine War Is Telling Us

  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...

Trust But Verify

  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...

Structuring a Staffing Team

  By Michael Neidle  |    Wed Feb 02, 2022

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Productivity

Structuring a staffing company can be more challenging then ever due to the “great resignation”, Covid, a scarcity of good talent and the associated high cost. There are options to consider in adding staff as explained below. Here are the going annual rates for IT contract recruiter last year (2020), before...

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