An intern who fixes one broken process gets more respect than a manager who explains why it’s broken.

Explaining why something is broken is a display of understanding. Fixing it is a transfer of value, and only one of those changes anybody’s day. Position matters less here than people assume, because a repaired annoyance is visible to everyone who used to trip over it. That is also why the fastest way to earn standing somewhere new is to pick something small and actually mend it.

Find the thing near you that everyone complains about and nobody owns: the messy folder, the sign-up sheet, the step that always gets missed. Fix it quietly this week, and do not explain the problem first. Just present it working.