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| 642.1 | | LOGOS::SOBOT | Steve Sobot | Tue Mar 28 1989 21:46 | 4 |
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Psychic ? :-)
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| 642.2 | a few suggestions | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Wed Mar 29 1989 04:51 | 11 |
| G'day,
How about 'driving' instead of 'driven'?
or creative instead of reparative? (_that's_ a good word, eh?)
or 'determined'(meaning planned) rather than indeterminate?
derek
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| 642.3 | I must be defactive | VISA::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Wed Mar 29 1989 19:01 | 5 |
| anticipatory - makes you sound like a vulture.
inactive, unreactive don't quite sound the right sort of opposites.
I know - ... de-factive. A de-facto standard is one made before you
knew there was a need for one.
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| 642.4 | | CLOSET::T_PARMENTER | Dig, and be dug in return. | Wed Mar 29 1989 20:14 | 3 |
| It is the people who are comfortable with the word "proactive" who seem
to most often need the encouragement to be so. Therefore, use the word
with them and no one else.
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| 642.5 | Useless Prefix | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Thu Jun 15 1989 02:23 | 4 |
| How about just plain "active"?
len.
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| 642.6 | ... alas ... | LESCOM::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Thu Jun 15 1989 02:51 | 5 |
| Re . 5 (len)
Too sensible.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 642.7 | Noise | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Running old protocol | Thu Jun 15 1989 19:17 | 9 |
| RE .5
Plain `active' does the job for me too. But I once said so in a
notes file ("`proactive' means `active, and by the way I work at DEC'")
and I was almost immediately swamped by brick-bats.
From now I'm keeping a low 'file on this one.
b
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| 642.8 | What's wrong with being reactive? | SHARE::SATOW | | Thu Jun 15 1989 19:43 | 20 |
| Somehow "active" seems more like and antonym for "lazy" to me. And many,
perhaps most, "non-proactive" people I know have quite a lot of enegy, which
that waste in useless activity.
I take a step backward and ask -- what's wrong with being reactive, if you
react effectively? I think that what's really being criticized in "reactive"
people is:
- being unprepared
- procrastination ("reacting" to having no clean socks by doing
the laundry [or buying more socks], as opposed to
"proactively" doing laundry before you run out of clean
socks.
- not having a plan
As someone mentioned earlier, "psychic" is a pretty good opposite for
"proactive". So unless you are psychic, you had better be prepared, don't
procrastinate, and have a plan.
Clay
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| 642.9 | well, if we accept "proactive" ... | LESCOM::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Thu Jun 15 1989 20:11 | 10 |
| Re .8 (Clay):
>As someone mentioned earlier, "psychic" is a pretty good opposite for
>"proactive". So unless you are psychic, you had better be prepared, don't
>procrastinate, and have a plan.
That's to say, if you want to be proactive, you should incrastinate?
;-)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 642.10 | | SHARE::SATOW | | Fri Jun 16 1989 00:34 | 10 |
| re: .9
> That's to say, if you want to be proactive, you should incrastinate?
Ya got me. I tried to use parallel construction, but couldn't.
How about "anticrastinate" or "concrastinate"? Or in the spirit of
antidisestablishmentarianism, antiprocrastinate? How about "Doitnow"?
Clay
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| 642.11 | castrinate as an alternative to recastrinate? | LESCOM::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Fri Jun 16 1989 01:53 | 15 |
| Re .10 (Clay):
>Ya got me. I tried to use parallel construction, but couldn't.
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>How about "anticrastinate" or "concrastinate"? Or in the spirit of
>antidisestablishmentarianism, antiprocrastinate?
I used "incastrinate" in the sense that "proactive" would be contrasted
to "inactive" (then reactive), so "procastrinate" would obviously
contrast to "incastrinate," following the same scheme.
Isn't "concastrinate" what they do to people taking their holy
vows? :-D
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 642.12 | Try a Coumpound Word | WOOK::LEE | Wook... Like 'Book' with a 'W' | Fri Sep 22 1989 03:08 | 8 |
| The compound "forward-thinking" might be ok if you like compound words.
For what it's worth, I think "anticipatory" is the appropriate word,
though it flows off the tongue like peanut butter.
By the way, if you have "proactive" vs. "reactive", then it should be
"procrastinate" vs. "recrastinate", n'est-ce pas?
Wook
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| 642.13 | I looked it up, and it's scary! | SVBEV::VECRUMBA | Infinitely deep bag of tricks | Fri Sep 22 1989 10:23 | 12 |
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"PROACTIVE - adj.(psych.) of the dominance of material learned
early in life, before the current process of change"
So, if you thought that being "proactive" was really a code word
management uses to perpetuate the same old infantile behavior while
pretending to incite folks to get off their duffs...
you were _ABSOLUTELY_ correct!
/petes
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