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'Designated contrarians' could improve nonprofit boards by disrupting the kind of consensus and groupthink that contributed to the NRA's woes

Written by Dana Brakman Reiser, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Sometimes it just takes one naysayer to illuminate a problem everyone else is ignoring.CreativeDesignArt/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

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