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Structural Question Picture.

Name honestly what is pushing you toward a structural change and what you actually hope it would achieve, so the diagnosis starts from the real driver rather than a vague sense that something must change.

First in the Restructuring Diagnostic, before you try to decide whether the answer is structural.

Part A. What is driving this?

Check any that apply.

A wall we cannot get past no matter what we try

Another organization has approached us, or we are eyeing one

A program has outgrown us

Money: we may not be able to sustain the organization

We duplicate what another organization already does

Exhaustion, or no one to lead it forward

A quiet doubt about whether we should still exist

For any you checked, describe plainly what is going on

Part B. What do you hope a change would achieve?

Write it in terms of the mission and the people you serve, not the organization's survival

The honest question to sit with: am I drawn to a structural change because it would serve the mission, or because it feels like a way out of a hard problem?

This is your raw picture. Notice whether your drivers in Part A are mostly about the mission being served better, or mostly about escaping a problem. The next step tests exactly that, because a structural change made to escape a fixable problem usually makes things worse, not better. Feeds the Restructuring Diagnostic.

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