What is the meaning of “Proactive” ? I never understand its meaning, some says “Taking action in advance. and the other says “To respond instead of react” What exactly does that mean?

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What is the meaning of “Proactive” ? I never understand its meaning, some says “Taking action in advance. and the other says “To respond instead of react” What exactly does that mean?

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The literal meaning is to take action in advance. However this may be extended to things such as preparing for incidents before they happen. So if you are proactive you will rather respond rather then react. But in that case your proactive moves are to think through the possible scenarios, make decisions about them and prepare so that you can respond to the events instead of having to react to them where you need to make decisions on the fly.

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