If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.
Interpretation
Leadership requires accountability, both for successes and failures.
Jeff Van Gundy emphasizes the importance of accountability in leadership and teamwork. He suggests that true leaders not only take credit for successes but also accept responsibility for failures, fostering a culture of mutual support and unity among team members. This quote highlights the necessity of self-reflection and fairness in assessing both individual and collective contributions within a team dynamic.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a sports team emphasizing teamwork and accountability.
If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service
It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
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