In the company I work for, the "culture" that they so much stressed needed to be preserved is all but gone. For example, the latest desiogn flow chart showed one beer at the end, not a beer between each major design step. That's the truth nowdays, too. Not enough celebration, though with the layoffs and not-so-good numbers, celebrations are hardly justifiable lately, but we did celebrate the loss of a few individuals in the layoffs privately...

Is the "preserving the culture" a mostly British thing? I'd never really heard it that much until I started at a British company.