One of my favorite pieces of business writing ever, which has a lot of stylistic choices I wouldn't make but which gets the point across, is this internal memo about Citi's mortgage business from someone who had been trying to ring the arm bell. https://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/fcic/20110310201200/http://c0181567.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/2007-11-03_Citi_Email_from_Dick_Bowen_to_Robert_Rubin_and_David_Bushnell_Re_concerns_financial_issues.pdf …
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If I had written it, and I have the benefit of hindsight, rewrite that and make it the first sentence: "Internal controls have broken down in residential mortgage underwriting. We face an unrecognized financial loss which may be large enough to imperil the firm."
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"But Patrick, there's a lot of legal risk there." That is not Dangerous Professional thinking. Dangerous Professional is *way* past worried about legal risk: if he's wrong he's fired and if he's right then legal risk is so far down on the priority stack that it needs no cycles.
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