The stability of the city's major employers will remain uncertain. The city lacks a plan for the future, hamstrung by too many groups with competing interests, overlapping goals and no shared vision. Greensboro Visions and other efforts like it did little to jolt the city into sustained action, and therein lies the problem. Citizens rightly question the validity of such self-examination, however insightful it may be, when it fails to drive a community in new directions. There's certainly a sense that Greensboro has slept through one too many wake-up calls.
Results require staying power.
Over the years any number of citizen committees have been duly appointed to help the city chart a course toward renewed prosperity, dating back as far as the Greensboro One Task Force in 1984 to the newest spawned by McKinsey, Action Greensboro. Tenn. And still, no real plan. Don't give us yet another report and then fail to follow it through. Top 50 Companies Find out which Triad companies have the strongest stocks and the brightest outlook.