Working Smart... and other hallway conversations

What if the secret to working strategically wasn’t a set of tasks or a series of decision steps?  What if there wasn’t any protocol to follow, but instead it was grounded in perception.  Yes perception.  What you and I attend to.  See what you think, as I present in this blog the case for working and managing strategically as fundamentally requiring a developed scan as well as optimization of resources and options.  In fact, this blog is aimed at describing three practical techniques you can use to work more strategically. Techniques that focus on how and what you attend to and scan, as contrasted with working in a “heads down” style. For everyone who manages projects and people, think of working strategically as directly tied to or enhanced by your capability to balance what I call a three legged stool in your field of view.  Keep reading, I’ll explain.