 Also, in addition to thinking strategically, you want to understand what your boss's priorities are. Remember, your boss has a lot of folks and probably a lot of teams like yours working for him or for her. So we need to be able to put our proposals in the context of what their most important priorities are. If we're not putting it in terms of their priorities, they're probably not going to go our way. So always be thinking about that. What are your boss's priorities are? How does what you're proposing fit into those priorities?