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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Yes, principally legal risk to the firm rather than to him personally.
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Why would he be fired? Well, some factors: a) Killing the messenger is tradition. b) Sending this memo *does* uniquely increase some risk to the organization. c) "Wasn't fixing this your only job?" d) You probably don't get multiple redos on going up the org chart like this.
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And to prove your point: he was, effectively, fired for this memo, wasn't he?
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He was ultimately fired for this, but Doing The Right Thing probably ended up working in his favour.
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