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-{{Def|proactive|||}}a word that has been fashionable in middle management circles for 15 or 20 years now, and appears to mean, more or less, “active” but something more than just “reactive”. In any case in in the management target it has taken on something of a universal virtue, notwithstanding that it is to be proactive to start bar fights, breaking and entering, and mail fraud.
+{{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”. To be “proactive” is to ''take the initiative''.
+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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