> -- basic things like how you do accounting, offices, etc. should be standard,

I fired a company once that was paying me quite well, and where I liked my co-workers and liked my job very well, just because they wouldn't make some changes to these simple things. They were stuck in a very rigid office culture mode where everyone had to dress the part, keep certain hours, park in a certain place, etc. I'm not the only good employee they chased away like that either. Unlike me, some of the others went to work for competitors, or formed companies that competed with them.