Dan Martell - March 09, 2026


Why do bosses blame their team？


Episode Stats


Length

34 seconds

Words per minute

255.13196

Word count

145

Sentence count

7

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Summary

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Bosses blame their team, leaders blame themselves. Why is it so hard to see that it's a people problem not a process problem? Why do bosses blame their employees when there's a mistake on their team and not themselves?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Why do bosses blame their team and not themselves? 0.76
00:00:02.540 Who f***ing hired them?
00:00:03.700 Who trained them? 0.92
00:00:04.360 You blame somebody on your team when there's a mistake.
00:00:07.020 You didn't train them.
00:00:07.920 You didn't create a dashboard for them.
00:00:09.320 You didn't tell them what greatness looks like.
00:00:11.260 If somebody makes a mistake on my team,
00:00:13.020 first thing I ask myself is how did I contribute to this?
00:00:16.040 Then I ask myself, is there a process
00:00:18.080 that they were supposed to follow to achieve this outcome?
00:00:20.720 If the answer is no, bad on me.
00:00:22.260 Then I ask myself, if there was a process and they followed it,
00:00:24.380 but it didn't get the result, did I properly train them?
00:00:26.740 Now, if both of those answers are yes,
00:00:28.520 Then I know I don't have a process problem, I have a people problem.
00:00:31.620 Bosses blame their team, leaders blame themselves.