Davenport: Growth or Ghost Town Depends on New Leadership Print
Commentary/Politics - Editorials Wednesday, 17 January 2007
02:17  There are three significant positions to be filled in
Davenport's economic development in the near-future: City
Director for Economic and Community Director, Director for
DavenportOne, and Director for Quad Cities Development Group.
Talk about the opportunity of a lifetime! Here is a chance to
enact real change in Davenport, considered by some to be the
flagship of the Quad Cities. Those who will influence our new
hires will either see the path or they won't - the path being to
hire individuals with genuine leadership skills that are
foundationally inclusive, versus the exclusive policy that has
dominated economic development in Davenport for so long.  The
thing is, if the boys' club would step back and allow a new
energy source to engage, it would find that it automatically
benefits from the new growth of economic activity that would, by
sheer momentum alone, evolve. Allowing ne