#commitment #contribution #responsibility #effectiveness To focus on contribution is to focus on effectiveness > The focus on contribution turns the executive's attention away from his own specialty, his own narrow skills, his own department, and towards the performance of the whole. It turns his attention to the outside, the only place where there are results. He is likely to have to think through what relationships his skills, his specialties, his functions, or his department have to the entire organization and its purpose. > People in general and knowledge workers in particular grow according to the demands they make on themselves