Lead from the Middle: Earn Trust Without a Title 🧭

You are in a meeting. The room is stuck—two departments are going back and forth about whose fault the delay is. You are not the manager. You are not the most senior person in the room. But you have the data, you have the context, and you have a clear idea of what to do next. What do you do? Stay quiet and wait for someone else to save the meeting? Or do you step in, not to take charge, but to offer a way forward? Most of us have been in that room. And most of us have stayed quiet—not because w…