Ben Dattner, Ph.D. is the founder of Dattner Consulting.  Ben helps organizations become more successful by developing a better understanding of the impact of individual and group dynamics on their performance. Ben is an Adjunct Professor at New York University, where he teaches Organizational Development in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology MA Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. We discuss… How individuals assign credit or blame to themselves. How our family experiences, gender and cultural influences shape our ways of thinking about credit and blame. How personality and personality types impact how individuals assign credit or blame to themselves and others. How to deal!  Can you take credit and blame out of the equation? Corporate cultures and how credit and blame is a key determinant of cultures, for better or for worse. Leadership- how leaders assign credit and blame.