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5. Super-proactive - now we are leading, not just setting the pace! We are having vision of the future.
This is where innovation happens, this is where paradigms shift, this is how we drive change and
amaze people. We are being a visionary. And as management guru Peter Drucker famously said,
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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Proactive characteristics predict an entrepreneurship lifestyle. Proactive people take initiative to
increase the likelihood of success, by:

 Looking more at the future that the past
 Taking personal responsibility
 Having a big-picture thinking
 Focusing on what can control
 Prioritising
 Thinking through scenarios
 Making things happen