If you take the credit when it works, you’d better take the heat when it doesn’t.

Credit and blame are the same claim seen from two angles. Telling people a good result was yours is a way of saying you were in charge, and that statement does not expire when the next result is bad. Others notice the mismatch quickly. It costs more than the credit was ever worth, because what they learn is that your version of events follows the scoreboard.

Look back at the last thing you took credit for and ask whether you would have stood up the same way had it failed. Saying “that one was on me” in front of the group buys more trust than any good week does.