Why will this specific task help the overall goal of the business?It's risky to specific task without understanding the related goings on in the business. However good you are delivering your bit think about what might happen outside your field of vision to scupper all your good work!
Spending a little time think more broadly and coming at the task top-down means you have a much richer understanding.
You'll uncover a whole series of other opportunities to follow-up yourself or to pass to your grateful client. In addition you develop a series of new relationships with stakeholders that you can call upon going forward. At the same time You complete the task you've been asked to do better because of your worldly approach.
The time you invest in broadening your reach is amply rewarded in reduced re-work leaving you more time to responding to 'new' opportunities.
