Promote your team and their achievements whenever possible, be proud of them and make sure that their contributions to the organization are known and recognized. On the other hand, when a failure occurs it is the responsibility of a leader to deal with any and to face any public ramifications and consequences. One of many leadership responsibilities is to protect their team and act as a buffer when needed. Leaders are faces of teams and organizations, but their teams are their backbones and without them they wouldn’t be able to accomplish much, if anything. Never forget that while success is theirs, failures are all yours.