Accepting praise you didn’t earn is just lying with a smile.

Praise lands whether or not it fits, and saying nothing in response is a decision. Silence looks modest from outside and works as a claim, because everybody leaves the room believing something untrue that you could have corrected in four words. It also quietly lifts the credit off whoever actually did the thing.

Have one sentence ready and use it next time: that was mostly somebody else, and here is who. For about a minute it will feel like you lost something. What you get is that your real credit becomes believable, which is worth a good deal more.