[abbasmehdi]

>>has not exactly told the team what it is that the heads want preserved

How do you gather?

[xerophtye]

Well at least it's not in the memo. This guy illustrates it nicely via satire:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619837

[001sky]

Well considering the "culture" needs to be laid down in a document

The illiad was a tour de force promulgation of culture that pre-dated its written (and many times translated) forms by hundreds of years. This list of empirical examples would be mind-boggling and need not be elaborated here. Whether or not the company in question is one of the exemplars is almost beside the point.