Are you a borrower or lender? The higher in the organization hierarchy, the more you have the opportunity to take credit for others’ efforts. You can easily borrow from their accomplishments to promote yourself without them being exposed. You can always be “I”ing yourself in every single conversation rather than taking the “We” stand. Although this might sound like being a winner, the game won’t last long cause your followers will stop supporting you.
Real leaders have a grateful mind. They cherish small wins while encouraging for better. They invest their credit, their accountability, their trust even their budget to afford failure to give wings to others to fly to make impossibles possible. Real leaders are lenders not borrowers!