026 - THE BUCK STOPS WITH ME

The buck stops with me. Blaming others for failure is never a good look, but especially when you're in a leadership position. As a leader, you have to own the failures even more so than sharing the successes. Firstly, if you don't, then you're signaling a weakness in leadership because if something went wrong and you weren't at the helm, then the first question I'm gonna ask is, well, who was, and whether you're in a leadership role or not, there's nothing more empowering than owning your mistakes because learning starts where failure end.  In fact, these a hundred lessons were really the result of many, many times that I have either failed or made mistakes and have had to learn from them. But the reality is, if I didn't take ownership of those mistakes, I would never learn, I'd always pass a buck to someone else and say it was their fault, and they would be the ones that either learnt or suffered as a result of my lack of ownership of my mistakes.  The buck has to stop with me because I'm the one who's in charge of what I do.  There we go. Hit me up in my dms on LinkedIn or Twitter if you've got any questions. Otherwise, let's get back to building.