the.com/initiative
Doing the thing before someone has to ask twice.
means The ability or drive to assess a situation and act on your own, without waiting for orders or a second nudge.
from From French initiative, built on Latin initiare 'to begin, initiate,' itself from initium 'a beginning' — the same root that gives us 'initial.' Latin initium traces back to in- 'into' plus ire 'to go,' so at its core the word just means 'the going-in,' the first step across a threshold. English picked it up in the 1700s, first as a term for the right or power to start something (as in legislative 'initiative'), before it settled into its modern sense of personal get-up-and-go.
- origin
- latin initium, meaning beginning
- corporate code
- often means unpaid extra project
- rarity
- everyone claims it on resumes
- paradox
- waiting for permission to show it