We were trained to listen to the loudest person in the room. An artifact of an old system. That system is broken. And that assumption is wrong.
The loudest person isn't leading. They're hiding. Hiding behind a shield of noise. Hiding from the hard questions. Hiding from the quiet truth that their ideas might not be ready. Hiding from the real work.
Shouting is a tactic. It’s a desperate attempt to be seen, a shortcut to appearing important. But it’s a fallacy. Because in the modern office, in our work, what matters is not who talks the most, but who contributes the most.
The real work happens in the quiet. The person who truly moves the project forward is the one who is listening. Listening not just to the words, but to the silence in between. Connecting dots that no one else sees. They don't need to broadcast their every thought because they are too busy improving their thinking.
Their power isn’t in their volume; it's in their output. The quality of the code they ship. The insight in the one question they ask. The support they quietly give a teammate who is struggling.
Your work is your voice. The generosity you show, the problems you solve, the change you make, that is what echoes. That is what resonates. Everything else is just noise.
The microphone is available to everyone now. But the people who make a real impact are too busy building something to bother shouting into it.
Don’t aim to be the loudest. Aim to be the one worth listening to. Let the work speak for itself. It always does.
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