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-{{Def|proactive|/prəʊˈæktɪv/|adj|}}A word that has been fashionable in [[middle management]] circles for 15 or 20 years now, and appears to mean, more or less, “active” yet something more than just “reactive”.
+{{Def|proactive|/prəʊˈæktɪv/|adj|}}A word that has been fashionable in [[middle management]] circles for 15 or 20 years now, and appears to correspond, more or less, to “action” yet something more than mere “''re''action”. It is to ''take the initiative''.
-In any case, in the management argot it has acquired something of a universal virtue — we must ''all'' be proactive to ''all'' people ''all'' of the time — notwithstanding that it is just as “proactive” to start bar fights, break and enter or  commit wire fraud as it is to initiate engagement with [[Stakeholder|stakeholders]] and [[drive]] [[customer success]] outcomes.
+In any case, in the management argot proactivity has acquired something of a universal virtue — we must ''all'' be proactive to ''all'' people ''all'' of the time — notwithstanding that it is just as “proactive” to start bar fights, break and enter or commit wire fraud as it is to initiate engagement with [[Stakeholder|stakeholders]] and [[drive]] [[customer success]] outcomes.
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