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September 3, 2010
 The Management Memo
by Dennis Vicars, CEO
"Managing the Difficults"
Leading motivated people certainly makes the art of management easier. In fact, we as leaders will all too often take too much credit for a responsible person’s success --it’s similar to managing an operation during good times and somehow thinking we’re geniuses.
Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on our perspective), we often inherit -- or mistakenly hire the not-so-motivated or “difficult people”. Now what?
In my 35+ years of management, I’ve learned:
1. People’s inner core rarely changes. The only person you can change is yourself – you can change your management approach, your attitude, or your personnel, but you will rarely change a person.
Continue reading the Management Memo here.
PACE EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Save the date! The 41st annual gathering of preschool center owners, directors and early ed teachers is scheduled for October 21-23 in Burlingame, and will include leadership training, school tours, and innovations in effective learning environments. Register here.
PACE, the Professional Association for Childhood Education, celebrates the 65th anniversary of its founding with this conference; it has members from over 1,000 children's centers in California, who educate over 55,000 children.
(Above, HSMC CEO Dennis Vicars with PACE secretary Iris Fox.)
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K-12 EDUCATION AND WELFARE PASSED OFF THE COUNTIES
In Sacramento yesterday, the legislature agreed to delay payment of nearly $3 billlion to K-12 public education and CalWORKS, essentially, says Jack O'Connell, "pushing its cash management to local districts." Counties will now carry the financial burden of these programs, a move made possible by the "deferral" legislation signed into law earlier this year by Gov. Schwarzenegger.
It's a back-door way of keeping money in the state till while still ostensibly keeping programs and promises of programs (as CaliforniaWatch reported on August 17, H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state Department of Finance, said that the Governor's May proposal to remove childcare from the state budget was "no longer on the table." Well yes, and no.).
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