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title: 'A lean canvas for understanding your startup’s culture'
date: '2018-05-30T21:27:20-07:00'
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categories:
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - Startups
  - Tools
tags:
  - canvas
  - Culture
  - lean
  - Startup
  - worksheet
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# A lean canvas for understanding your startup’s culture

By now, you’ve likely encountered the lean business canvas. It’s single page worksheet that helps folks build a high level business plan for their startup. Alternatively, its’a quick and easy way figure out that your idea for a company has no chance of succeeding as a business. Either way, it’s a useful framework. So if you can use that formate to help understand your business, what if it a similar worksheet could help you understand the culture of your business? [Enter The Praxis Department and the Startup Culture Canvas](https://medium.com/@ThePraxisDepartment/the-startup-culture-canvas-beta-cece99b36d06 "The Startup Culture Canvas (Beta)").

> The canvas is a practical tool based on the culture model for designing and cultivating a purpose-driven organization from the ground up.
> 
> It’s designed to help teams articulate a shared vision for the kind of company and culture they want to cultivate, and identify specific actions and strategies to achieve it. The Startup Culture Canvas is a template for using your culture as a more effective organizational operating system.

Interested in taking it for a spin or simply learning more? Get more info at [The Startup Culture Canvas (Beta)](https://medium.com/@ThePraxisDepartment/the-startup-culture-canvas-beta-cece99b36d06 "The Startup Culture Canvas (Beta)").

*\[Full disclosure: The Praxis Department is in the current class of PIE. I am the cofounder and general manager of PIE.\]*