Let that marinate on you for a second….
It’s not the person with the loudest voice. It’s not the person with the biggest title…
It’s the room.
At American Crane, we see this play out every day.
When experience is shared between engineering, manufacturing, service and the field.
When questions are welcomed and assumptions are challenged.
When people feel heard, not just managed.
That’s where the real intelligence lives.
The strongest solutions we deliver don’t come from a single expert or a lone decision maker.
They come from teams willing to collaborate, disagree respectfully, and take shared ownership of the outcome.
If you always need to be the smartest person in the room…you’re probably in the wrong room.
And if you’re leading that room, your job isn’t to prove how smart you are.
Your job is to build an environment where the room itself gets smarter.
Innovation doesn’t come from ego.
It comes from collective thinking, the kind that turns complex lifting challenges into safe, reliable solutions for our customers.
Question for anyone reading this:
What’s one thing great teams do that average teams don’t?