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Article: Vision Shared Making the Grade
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- The State Journal
- Article date:
- February 3, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright State Journal Corporation Feb 03, 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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When asked to grade West Virginia: A Vision Shared's work during the past five years, the results are quite good even though its accomplishments admittedly are hard to list.
"Vision Shared found that the stakeholders' process, getting all these people with divergent interests but a stake in the process together, is what is key to moving West Virginia forward," said Steve Roberts, president of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
"We also have become painfully aware that it takes a lot of time and a lot of talking to reach consensus on issues. By its very nature, Vision Shared is a consensus organization. We achieve consensus and move issues, which is a very slow process."
That slow ...