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title: "Thought Paper: Understanding Organisational Culture"
description: This thought paper explores the different approaches to culture change and shares best practices for working with culture.
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A RISE Thought Paper

## Attempting to understand **Organisational Culture**

![Attempting to Understand Organisational Culture](https://www.risebeyond.org/hs-fs/hubfs/New%20Website%20Graphics.png?width=183&name=New%20Website%20Graphics.png)It's time to change how we think about and approach culture change. There is a lot of talk about culture change being something you can plan, execute and complete. However, this approach has inherent challenges, as culture change is happening all the time and never ends. 

**In this paper learn about:**

- The different ways of understanding culture
- Best practices to support you in curating and nurturing the culture you want

 

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