I mean, proactive! Not reactive.

How do we be more proactive, prevention driven?

We've got to start thinking about being more proactive.

Hotly debated topics proactive stance against discrimination and school busing.

It combines elements of proactive and reactive fields of security...

We were very reactive, as opposed to being proactive about what happened.

One of the challenges for me was changing how I saw consequences and the proactive approach. gt gt Teacher

Or will we take proactive steps and learn from the homegrown resource of grassroots activists that have been born of desperation in communities like mine?

What is definitely uncontroversial is that, as I've said, we've got to stop being reactive, and more proactive, and I just want to leave you with one idea, which is that it's a provocative question for you to think about, and the answer will require sympathy with the devil.

Now what that suggests is the design for an exploration agent that will be more proactive about exploring the world when it's uncertain, and will fall back to exploiting the optimal policy or whatever policy it has as close to optimal when it becomes more certain about the world.

And interesting research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School has found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts do, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likely to let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an extrovert can, quite unwittingly, get so excited about things that they're putting their own stamp on things, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to the surface.