Blame is the luxury of failing teams. When someone makes a wrong decision, the instinct to fracture feels natural, but it’s what separates teams that accomplish from teams that merely exist.

Real leadership isn’t about preventing every mistake. It’s about how you respond when mistakes happen. The decision was made, the outcome emerged, and now there’s only the work: correction, adaptation, moving forward. Turning on each other is paralysis dressed up as accountability.

Your teammates will be wrong sometimes. You’ll be wrong sometimes. The question is whether you use those moments as permission to fragment, or as opportunities to demonstrate what the team is made of. Mission focused people don’t need perfect conditions. They need clear objectives and the maturity to subordinate ego to outcome.

Drama is a choice. Infighting is a choice. Both are retreats from the harder work of simply getting the job done.