It applies at the team level as well. Those team players you know probably sing the victories of the team just a little more loudly than they televise their own

It applies at the team level as well. Those team players you know probably sing the victories of the team just a little more loudly than they televise their own failures. It isn’t really that Machiavellian. At any operational level, humans and human organizations give more attention to their own successes than failures.