In a band, the leader isn’t the loudest player. It’s the one keeping everyone in time.

Volume competes and timing coordinates, and only one of those makes a group sound like a single thing. Whoever is holding the tempo is doing something nobody notices until it stops. It is unglamorous, it requires listening to everyone else rather than to yourself, and the whole piece rests on it. The best player in the room is often not that person.

Find the coordinating job in whatever you are part of and take it for a week. Keep the schedule, keep people in step, make sure the quiet ones are actually with you. You get less attention and considerably more done.