Some people think I'm effective at work because I have a deep understanding of the system my team owns. There are projects we take on and decisions we make that

Some people think I'm effective at work because I have a deep understanding of the system my team owns. There are projects we take on and decisions we make that do depend on that understanding. However, what's far more important 80% of the time are the wide-ranging shallow understandings I have of other systems that we interact with (sometimes directly, sometimes highly indirectly). I can't imagine being able to be successful in my role without both, but I see folks overindexing on the former pretty frequently.