"One wonders if the crisis in the financial world today would be quite so catastrophic if more people had spoken out in their team meetings about what they knew to be wrongful practices. But again that brings us back to the hazards of courage. You'd like to think that people who do the courageous right thing and speak out will get their reward on earth as well as in heaven. But you don't always get your reward here on earth. While it's true that not being on a team can put your career on hold, being a real and committed team player, whether as a team leader, a deviant, or just a regular member who speaks the truth, can be dangerous business indeed." J. Richard Hackman in an interview published in HBR, May 2009 ("Why teams don't work")
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