Opportunity management - Identifying career opportunities

This subject came up today in a broader conversation about job search management and it is evidently one that has a great bearing on personal success. What enables some individuals to identify, react to and even create opportunities while others are left wondering what they might have said or done?

The suggestion was made that successful opportunity management doesn't always call for us to become the aggressive networker or self-promoter. Of course there is far more to the subject that this but it seemed like an interesting place to begin the discussion and the search for examples within the context of work/life fusion.

Definitely a subject to be continued...