I am detail oriented, boss is big picture, we are clashing...anyone else like this?

groovygrl

I have discovered in my current job of one year that I am truly on the detail oriented side of the detail vs big picture scale... It is not that I am unable to see big picture and come up w ideas, but that once I have or hear an idea, I move quickly to thinking about " how" it will happen and see all the possible stumbling blocks...my boss is not at all detail oriented so is always throwing out ideas that I know are just not realistic, or not on the time frame she thinks they can happen on, and I feel like I end up wasting time putting together ideas and proposals only for 50% to not go past that for reasons I suspected from the start...then she gets upset bc I don't produce as many new projects as she wants, when she doesn't realize all the other stuff that goes on day to day and also that her idea of a timeline for things is not realistic in our bureaucratic environment. Other direct reports of hers have the same experience. So, I am trying to work on seeing the big picture more w out getting caught up in details immediately,and being more assertive in dealing w communication w others re cost and timeline issues etc early on, but just wondering if others have dealt with this and done anything differently to help?