{"id":853,"date":"2013-11-13T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2013-11-13T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:15:10","slug":"everything-is-your-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Everything is YOUR fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>Hey, watch this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ehvyAMFL30?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>As per usual, Pixar nails it; this time in area of leadership.\u00a0 Hopper\u2019s right.\u00a0 If you assume leadership, you assume responsibility for team failure.\u00a0 All of the responsibility.\u00a0 It\u2019s what great leaders do, and that\u2019s why all aren\u2019t called to be leaders.<\/p>\n<p>And if the first rule of leadership truly is, \u201cEverything is YOUR fault,\u201d then the second rule should be, \u201cCredit should never be taken by YOU alone.\u201d\u00a0 If you experience team success, then it was the team that succeeded, not the leader.<\/p>\n<p>A brief review: Failure, your fault.\u00a0 Success, someone else\u2019s \u201cfault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Credit should always be given away.<\/p>\n<p>In his excellent book <em>Good to Great<\/em>, Jim Collins\u00a0names humility as the one of the two characteristics that define the highest level leaders (\u201cLevel 5 Leaders\u201d).\u00a0 He further defines humility as one who gives credit away while, conversely, taking the blame when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, I\u2019m still growing in this.\u00a0 I catch myself listing off wins in conversation while simultaneously hogging the credit.\u00a0 I have realized that if I\u2019m not intentional about giving credit away, it tends to stick to me as the leader.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cindividual success\u201d is a myth.\u00a0 Someone else helped me get there.\u00a0 God and my wife can always be \u201cblamed\u201d for my success even if I can\u2019t find anyone else, which is rare indeed.\u00a0 I am surrounded by my betters.<\/p>\n<p>Who can you give credit to today?\u00a0 What do you need to take responsibility for?<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, watch this: As per usual, Pixar nails it; this time in area of leadership.\u00a0 Hopper\u2019s right.\u00a0 If you assume leadership, you assume responsibility for team failure.\u00a0 All of the responsibility.\u00a0 It\u2019s what great leaders do, and that\u2019s why all aren\u2019t called to be leaders. And if the first rule of leadership truly is, \u201cEverything&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=853\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everything is YOUR fault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[69,70,84,108,113,114,151,168,184],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-2","category-leadership-wednesday","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-god","tag-integrity","tag-leaders","tag-leadership","tag-reflection","tag-servant-leadership","tag-success"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-dL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}