This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused on is getting through the next meeting. “Getting through” means running out the clock so that it’s over, getting out of it without any new work, and especially without “getting in trouble” for something.
Obviously, this is bad most of the time as I should be focused on doing the right job well.
Sometimes in BigCo’s there are malicious or benignly malicious actors, however. You could have people trying to off-load work on you or outright trying to subvert you.
Often, the subversion has nothing to do with you (or them) personally, and it just a zero-sum corporate battle. For example, for budget, which strategy wins over another, control of access to a customer, executive, or other team.
The benign malicious actors are often not fully informed on what you’re working on. At best you spend your time educating them. In the middle, they have different perspective that you need to learn and integrate into your work-life. At worse, due to lack of context (“that which is scarce”) and understanding, they want you to change your work. In this last case, they can switch to knowingly malicious.