It's the grey goo of manager-speak. It rides both sides, but never truly picks one.
The other two options: blame employees(someone not you), or take some form of punishment as an individual.
I too do it sometimes, and I feel bad each time. I at least tell people what it is and that it's just the reality of the situation. I'm not gonna commit career suicide and jeopardize my family's livelihood but I also won't blame them. So I follow the meaningless middle road where the status quo mostly stays and we all at least learn from it.
Ah, you're only going to endanger the livelihood of your employees' families, most of whom have substantially less wealth than you. I bet the rest of your employees don't really care that you "feel bad."
I'm not responding in the context of layoffs nor have I fired people because of my mistakes luckily. That's a different story, and I was trying to explain to OP my take on it.
The other two options: blame employees(someone not you), or take some form of punishment as an individual.
I too do it sometimes, and I feel bad each time. I at least tell people what it is and that it's just the reality of the situation. I'm not gonna commit career suicide and jeopardize my family's livelihood but I also won't blame them. So I follow the meaningless middle road where the status quo mostly stays and we all at least learn from it.