How much time can you spare learning exactly what each of those other people are doing and how it might affect your work? For that matter, how much time can tho

How much time can you spare learning exactly what each of those other people are doing and how it might affect your work? For that matter, how much time can those other people spare to explain yet again exactly what they're doing, in enough detail for you to realize how it affects your work? As I see it, much of management's job is to protect me from investing most of my time in conversations which didn't need to happen because they won't pay off.