Is there a whoosh going on here or am I "playing baseball, standing out in left field?" I guess I'm a fielder! My perspective on the entire rant/essay/insight/

Is there a whoosh going on here or am I "playing baseball, standing out in left field?" I guess I'm a fielder! My perspective on the entire rant/essay/insight/whatever is that it is summarized by its last line. If you want to take credit for your organization when times are good, you cannot hide behind your powerlessness when times are bad. When I worked for K- G---- way back in the day, we built a hit product. I milked that success for years. Imagine if I had stayed on board and things had gone poorly after a few years. Could I later say, "I only work at KG, I don't make decisions, the problems were elsewhere?" My take on Seth's point is that I can't wear KG's success like a mantle while weaseling out of association with its failures with talk of "I only worked there, other people make the bad decisions." It's ok to just punch a clock and do a job. But if you're going to try to associate yourself with your organization during good times, you have to live with the lumps during bad times. JM2C, you may have read something else in this.