Grants management has been evolving from a transactions and compliance role to one that is helping convert data into information into knowledge. As we manage the systems and processes that enable sense-making in this new context, new tasks may require new ways of thinking. The usual linear procedures of grants management may not be effective against complex contextual problems that appear from nowhere. Creative solutions to such challenges cannot always be conveyed thru procedure manuals or white papers. They come from new mental connections that form over time thru networked social learning and sense-making, both important practices of personal knowledge management. Raising your self-awareness of the habits of mind below will provide the soil from which these practices can grow.