{"id":5452,"date":"2019-10-17T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2019-10-17T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T19:13:20","slug":"a-general-never-blames-his-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/2019\/10\/17\/a-general-never-blames-his-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"A General Never Blames His Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5452\" class=\"elementor elementor-5452\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c0f72a4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c0f72a4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-df2642c\" data-id=\"df2642c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1733221 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1733221\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/RU429.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5453\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/RU429.png 700w, https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/RU429-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4dcdc2c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4dcdc2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cA general never blames his troops.\u201d It was a statement I needed to hear. I was a part of a very big, very important project that hadn\u2019t turned out according to expectations. It wasn\u2019t all my fault, but mistakes were made by many including me \u2013 and including the general.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Up to this point, I hadn\u2019t been blamed or made purposely to feel bad, or really taken much heat at all \u2013 little comments, whispers through the grapevine, a general vibe \u2013 all these made me feel like I had failed miserably and that the burden of failure was on my shoulders alone. I didn\u2019t necessarily agree I should shoulder it alone, but, nonetheless, I was carrying it. It was affecting my confidence, my morale, and my belief in myself going forward.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Until these few uttered words freed me from the bulk of my burden. It wasn\u2019t just my fault, I wasn\u2019t solely to blame \u2013 in this metaphor in fact, I\u2019m a part of an elaborate military system where orders come from above, and my general hasn\u2019t assigned me the role of \u201cperson who lost the war.\u201d This is good. I am free! It\u2019s not that simple of course, but I needed to hear the words, and as a result can move forward more productively than had previously been the case.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u201cA general never blames his troops.\u201d I can\u2019t claim any particular knowledge to if this is true in the field or not, but the more I think about it, the more lost in the meaning I get. It conveys a simple truth, a truth that in this particular situation I can get behind. A truth that in our particular organization makes me something of a lieutenant\u2026 and it turns out I\u2019m a lieutenant that might sometimes blame her troops.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">I\u2019ve struggled in my management role. My teams lack military discipline \u2013 this is the corporate world, you must cater styles to suit each person not just expect your orders to be followed as stated. As a result of this, the outcome of projects is mixed. And there are times that when they\u2019re really bad, yeah, I might blame a troop.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In this situation, I get the benefit of my general not blaming me. If he\u2019s lost sleep at night or gotten a knot in his stomach every time he\u2019s thought about the project and seen my face there in the mix, well, that makes two of us, but it isn\u2019t for me to dwell on anymore. And as it pertains to my own management, I have a lot of learning and growing to do \u2013 a lot of project successes and project failures to endure before I get promoted to general. I\u2019m accountable either way, so it\u2019s time to learn to own the blame for my team, unless we just rock it from here on out.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The lesson here is one of two things: It\u2019s was a kind thing for your boss to alleviate some of the pressure of a failed project or Andee shouldn\u2019t read too heavily into aphorisms. You tell me.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA general never blames his troops.\u201d It was a statement I needed to hear. 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