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Article: Higher authority.(LABJ Forum)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 6, 2005
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When it was revealed last week that high-ranking FBI official Mark Felt was "Deep Throat"--the source of revelations about Richard Nixon's White House that led to his 1974 resignation--some critics declared that he had violated the rules of his agency by leaking information to the press. In the workplace, variations on this quandary of speaking out for the greater good happen all the time--often with less than positive results. So the Business Journal asks:
Should a person break the rules in order to do the right thing?
Melvin N.A. Avanzado
Partner
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP
I ascribe to the belief that there is ...