Good point, taking the blame and giving credit is the job.

Exactly

The best leaders I’ve worked with weren’t the ones who avoided criticism. They were the ones who could absorb it without becoming defensive.

absorbing heat while taking zero credit is the ultimate test of leadership.

There are so many leaders who take credit and blame others. Just the opposite of being a good leader and still be leaders....

Leadership is always tested in hot water & hot pursuits of excellence. When you start losing, you will have an opportunity to showcase exemplary embodiment of leadership. Lose - lose situation. When you are at certain threshold, you will have a great opportunity to personify your leadership traits. I think most of us don't follow the SOP. .. that's the biggest disappointment. We need to be in league of hustles, firefighter & problem solver . Constant triggering of taking decision critically is the hallmark of great leadership. Let we perceive that!!

A leader’s job is not to avoid criticism. That’s impossible. It’s to make the best decision with the information available, protect the team, and take responsibility after.

The underrated step: explain the lesser evil out loud, so the team knows it was a choice and not an accident.

Sometimes you shouldn’t choose depending on pros and cons (win/lose what) but simply based on: What you want vs what you don’t want. It simplifies the decision to what truly matters most.

People pay a lot more attention to you when things are going bad. How you make decisions, communicate and treat people in those moments says much more about your leadership than when everything is going well. This is the time when people see how you react and decide whether they can really trust you as a leader.

100%. Own it... If you're accountable to the problem - you can also implement the solution.

And with all the social media fakery - many people don’t realize how often business owners and service providers are in lose-lose situations. Yes, you can turn it into a positive by how you handle it - but that doesn’t stop the criticism or second guessing. Good to remind yourself of that sometimes so it doesn’t overly impact your energy.

Name the tradeoff, own the decision, and make sure the people doing the work get the credit.

In all you do good or evill, people will always find a reason to redicule and sabotage your efforts. Do good always, even in lose-lose situation, give credit and do you at all times.

And explain the trade-off to the people carrying the consequences. Even when a decision is unpopular, people deserve to understand why it was made and what support they'll have afterwards.

This is real leadership. Making tough choices and staying true to your path even when people criticize you. True personal growth means building the mental strength to handle these moments. 🧠💼

That "take blame, and give credit" part, that's all I need to loyally follow someone's lead.

I think the most important skill you can learn is accountability for yourself

You make the hard decisions and clear the path so your people can do their jobs

Lose-lose is where most people freeze and call it prudence. The job is picking the cheaper scar, owning it in public, and moving before the room invents a worse story for you.

Running solo means every hard call is mine. No one to blame. No one to credit. Just the decision and the result.

Most owners dodge this by escalating every hard call upstairs. Then the seat never owns anything, and the calendar stays full.

If you take the blame you are just putting your name on a call that nobody else wanted to own.

Leadership is choosing the hit you can live with, then owning it so others don’t have to.

yeah, and you don't get to outsource the explanation either Take the blame, sure but explain what trade-off you were protecting too. otherwise people just fill the gap with their own story

the "take blame, give credit" part is what separates people you'd actually follow from people who just hold the title.

This is the part of leadership people rarely talk about. Sometimes there is no good option, only the option that creates the least damage.

Sometimes the right move leaves everyone a little mad. Guess that’s why not everyone signs up for this gig.

Own the decision publicly, explain the tradeoff plainly, and give the team credit for carrying it through.

Lose-lose isn't a failure state; it's the practical scenario that every successful leader has faced in life, but the way he handled the situation made him a better leader.

You will always be criticized and ridiculed Whatever you do-good or bad; right or wrong My point is why give control of your life to others? It is your life, live it in your way. Why bother about others reactions? When you know their default mode is critical.

The hardest part is accepting that a clean decision can still look wrong from the outside.

There is a great ability in handling those kind of situations, because it puts you in a small grouping that would tackle them.

Leadership is absorbing the loss so the team keeps moving. Blame in, credit out.

The part people skip is timing. A lose-lose call made today usually costs less than the right call made two weeks late, because the team stops waiting and starts working again.

Nobody trains you for that part. Every book is about wins. The lose lose calls are where you actually find out who you are.