New Sun City
Anthem Manager Announced
Faces Difficult
Challenge
By now the community has been made
aware that a new General Manager named Sandy Seddon
has been named effective November 23, 2015.
Mrs. Seddon hails from The Golden
State, is in her mid-forties, married, has two children, and according to
what we've learned, has a number of years of experience in managing a homeowners
association.
According to what has been stated,
she apparently has 18 years of experience, but at a California homeowners
association of 900 members.
No matter how you attempt to analyze
her, one thing is for certain.
IT'S A DONE
DEAL ! (for the most part), and no matter
what your personal feelings, she will be the new Sun City Anthem General
Manager.
...and...as far as Mrs. Seddon is concerned, we must give her our support to
enhance her opportunity to succeed as our community
GM.
We at Anthem Opinions....welcome her to
this newest challenge in her career...a challenge that will be DIFFICULT.
Our expectation is that she has the
independence and common sense to stand up to the ill
thought out and financially disastrous decisions made by a group of individuals
whose past actions primarily have shown LITTLE
RESPECT or COMPETENCE in governing Sun City
Anthem.
As a result, our concern is NOT Mrs. Seddon, but those who
determined she was the "chosen one", and if
they will continue to HINDER
those who have made attempts to render good financial
advice.
That is the battle and conflict Mrs. Seddon
will undertake while she manages the community....having to
deal with those individuals who made the decision to hire her, those same
individuals who will also have the opportunity to TERMINATE her at any time...if
the decisions she makes....ARE IN OPPOSITION to those same
people.
In addition Mrs. Seddon
will also have to come to grips with certain individuals in the community who
have taken it upon themselves to consider themselves "community spokesmen"...some of
which HAVE BEEN EVERY BIT AS RESPONSIBLE for the
DAMAGE and FINANCIAL PROBLEMS Sun City Anthem has incurred as those who have made the actual
decisions.
Her
looking at the actual results obtained by those individuals will
hopefully determine just what confidence she should have in their advice to
her....
...and we sincerely hope
she encourages meeting and discussing the concerns of the
residents with others who have differing
opinions.
We also hope that she
also has the ability to look past "politics as
usual".
How to create an
independent environment in order to accomplish
success?
Here are our
suggestions to Mrs. Seddon to achieve success.
BE YOUR OWN
PERSON
STAND UP FOR YOUR
BELIEFS, NOT THOSE OF OTHERS.
(do not be controlled
by a Board...they will be replaced year after year)
TREAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU
,YOURSELF, WISH TO BE TREATED
(be kind and
considerate...realize that senior citizens can often be "difficult" at times,
yet always will have had more life experience than you...and have accomplished
a task you someday hope to accomplish...a self-reliant
retirement)
SEARCH OUT RELAVENT
EXPERIENCE FROM A COMMUNITY FILLED WITH THOSE WHO LONG TO PROVIDE
IT
(especially from those
who have been rebuked in the past for simply disagreeing with those in
control)
DEMONSTRATE
INTEGRITY
(make decisions that are good for the
whole...not for the few)
What is our
suggestion in order to accomplish all of this as a new General Manager of a
large association?
Recognize that most
organizations who place confidence in a new leader, choose their "own people" to accomplish satisfactory results in
achieving goals.
And...as
such...
CLEAN
HOUSE
The saying "A New Broom Sweeps Clean" says it all
!
Build your own
team....with those you feel confident...not necessarily those currently in
place.
They will cling to the
past...the past that brought a decision to REPLACE
THEM.
Tomorrow let's examine
the "full package" and the decisions that have yet to
be announced.
But...today...let's
welcome this lady to our community.
She has a huge
responsibility and will need all the help she can get to make "Self-Management"
succeed.
Got any other suggestions
you would like to pass on to this individual as she joins our Sun City Anthem
family?
Let us
know.
Send us your comments
to:
Anthem Opinions
Administration
They pick someone WITHOUT Nevada accreditation?????
I am not naïve enough to think a State's accreditation could mean anything....however if the State of California has more-stringent requirements than Nevada, then case closed.....
...but IF the State of California accreditation is merely "mail in your check and you're accredited" then I do have a problem.