A more senior colleague told me that he felt that it was his job to be blamed. You are literally hired, especially as you reach director and VP levels, to shield the team from fear and uncertainty so that they feel empowered to go and do the right things for the customer. Then your job is to be blamed if things go wrong, and you hope that in that period of time between the blame and when you started, that some good things were done.
As we go to senior positions, we are hired to get blamed and shield our reporters from the noise, so they can do their job
