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“If we hadn’t done that, I couldn’t have done this.”
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“If we hadn’t done that, I couldn’t have done this.”

“That” was a Historical Scan activity; “this” was goal setting during a strategic planning session. The individual who said this pointed to the wall chart showing four decades of their nonprofit organization’s history and said that knowing their history helped them understand their current situation and plan for their future.

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