The classic advice is for career advancement. For promotions and raises and for internal political capital to promote the projects you want, or the implementati

The classic advice is for career advancement. For promotions and raises and for internal political capital to promote the projects you want, or the implementation you think best. Sure, if you just want to a be a cog in the machine, without broader responsibility (and the historically much higher compensation for that) then don't do more than the is necessary to ensure you remain employed. But it probably is more lucrative to achieve some success, and then leverage that to the next thing (which might need to be a different company).