I wonder how my honest answers to that line of questioning would be interpreted? ">What were the biggest challenges the team faced?" Struggling with a crony m

I wonder how my honest answers to that line of questioning would be interpreted? ">What were the biggest challenges the team faced?" Struggling with a crony manager whose universal incompetence worked its way into every aspect of the project. This ultimately made a smoking wreck of the first public milestone. ">Walk me through the biggest team problems and how they were resolved. What was your role in this? After the major public embarrassment described above I was sent before a panel of consultants to effectively interview for my job. I successfully convinced the consultants of my own my own plan to recover the project while laying provable blame for the project dysfunction on the problem manager. The team was appointed a new manager who was happy to stay all but completely out of the way. I was made technical lead and given free reign to pull together a new team. Within six weeks we completed a new public milestone with 4x the scope of the previous failure without a hint of trouble. --- Personally, I see "team player" often being confused with simply being subordinate to the established team. I think there's definitely wisdom in a mentality of service, to the team or the job. Thing is, the team may be best served by having part of it removed and the team function may be best served by a completely different team. In my experience, people don't like to hear that.