"Forests" (more strategic decisions/recommendations) are more "one-and-some," meaning they address both the current circumstance/situation AND future choices relevant to it or that may arise as a result of it. "Trees" (more tactical decisions/recommendations) are typically one-and-done - good for the particular circumstance/situation, but not much more. Best of luck.Ī good way to differentiate the "forest" from the "trees" is to think in terms of the precedence or implications of a decision or recommendation. Then align your efforts to support the big picture. Initiate an honest discussion to define the bigger picture. How is your boss's performance judged? What are the objectives of the company? The big picture approach is to meet the revenue objectives, from the desired target market, in the assigned territory, at the desired price, within budgeted costs, etc.Ī starting point is to identify all of the elements of success. Sales Manager: The tactical approach is to meet the revenue objectives of the company. The big picture approach is the customer receives what was contracted, on time, profitably, billed properly, absent organizational disruption, etc. Project manager: The tactical approach is to look at the job from a couple of elements - job complete, on-time and the customer is happy. The frustration of the boss is a result of the fact that tactical implementation almost always leads to unintended consequences or missed objectives in other areas. My experience has shown that a request to be "big picture" implies that one has not included the company and/or departmental objectives in their thinking. To build on these findings, Davachi has been analyzing her data and working to verify her own findings with experiments that simulate more lifelike memories, she said.If I were to answer the question of what is the most important and immediate step I could take, the answer would be to "define the big picture". And within the realm of neuroscience, it's known that the medial prefrontal cortex is also involved in retrieving autobiographical memories of a person's own life.ĭavachi’s lab actually conducted this experiment almost two years ago, she explained, so she said even some of the fine details are fuzzy in her memory as she recalls the big picture. However, the new findings show that each category of events, divided by theme, is encoded by the same pattern of neurons as individual, minute details that tend to fade away for the sake of a more general understanding. It's clustering the information," Davachi said.īut what this study doesn't answer is how memories of a beach scene, for example, are assimilated into the participant’s existing knowledge and experience of being at the beach. "You could even interpret this data in the opposite way and say, 'Look, the brain is keeping this information separate,' but the important thing is, it's doing both. But in this case, Davachi suggested that the hippocampus was actively re-encoding memories as they were retrieved, perhaps further consolidating them into the brain’s larger body of knowledge, she added. The hippocampus, Davachi explained, is generally thought to be responsible for keeping distinctive memories separate from one another in the brain, to prevent the very overlap that this experiment found. But what she wasn't expecting to see was that the hippocampus also played a big role. The medial prefrontal cortex, a brain region involved in high-level cognition and recalling distant memories, was particularly active when people were being tested a week later. The experiment revealed that two parts of the brain, in particular, are responsible for assimilating specific memories into broader knowledge. "All the beach scenes were coming together in one pattern." "At one week, we started to see a similar structuring," Davachi said. Now, when the scientists looked at all of the objects, the pattern of neural activation looked different based on which setting that object had previously been placed in. But one week later, the patterns were different, according to the study. The scans of what regions of their brains activated and when were distinct for each of the memories. In her study, Davachi found that when presented with images of specific objects in one of four scenes - a beach, a jungle, a city or a bedroom - brain scans of participants initially showed each object-place pairing as a distinctive memory of that one event. "It's updating current knowledge, it's adding new information if there's anything useful to add." It's likely something not under your control," Davachi said.
"The fact that it emerged over time means there's something the brain does after sleep.
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