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## [A Good Question Can be a Game Changer](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/good-question-game-changer)

 Posted by [Anne Wallestad, Former President & CEO, BoardSource](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/anne-wallestad-president-ceo-boardsource) on Feb 9, 2017, 2:48:12 PM

One of my favorite questions to ask boards is “If your organization were founded today, what would it look like?” I love it because it leads to the board asking some other very important questions — questions that get to the heart of the organization’s existence:

- What’s our organization’s core...

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