The self-serving bias
It encourages you to claim your successes and to deflect your failures.
When something good happens, you take the credit, but when something bad happens, you blame it on something out of your control.
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Self-serving Bias
It causes you to claim your successes and ignore your failures.
This means that when something good happens, you take the credit, but when something bad happens, you blame it on external factors.
Self-serving bias may manifest at work when you receive critical feedback....
6. Self-Serving Bias:
People attribute their successes to internal factors but attribute their failures to external factors. For instance, if you succeed in a project, you might credit your skills, but if you fail, you blame a lack of resources.
Don't take credit
Bad leaders take credit for the good things and pin any blame for bad things to others.
Good leaders let the credit go to the team and team members. They only call attention to themselves when they take responsibility for a problem.
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