as in ambition
readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity
the sentry showed remarkable initiative and uncommon bravery in foiling the terrorist attack
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John McEntee, now a senior advisor for Project 2025, the far-right presidential transition initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, made crude remarks about gender and voter rights in a video posted on X on Monday, Oct. 28.
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Yes, but: There are no initiatives underway to develop the other ideas outlined last year like retrofitting a building, Lewis tells Axios.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
As the 10-year graduation initiative nears its end, CSU has launched an unprecedented outreach effort to survey more than 1 million faculty, staff, students, alumni and others on how to reimagine student success.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
In our research and my experience of over 20 years of coaching executive teams around the world, culture change initiatives attempting to transform mindsets through expensive programs, detailed communications plans, and engaging training tend to fall short of sustained execution.
—Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Yes, but: There are no initiatives underway to develop the other ideas outlined last year like retrofitting a building, Lewis tells Axios.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
As the 10-year graduation initiative nears its end, CSU has launched an unprecedented outreach effort to survey more than 1 million faculty, staff, students, alumni and others on how to reimagine student success.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
In our research and my experience of over 20 years of coaching executive teams around the world, culture change initiatives attempting to transform mindsets through expensive programs, detailed communications plans, and engaging training tend to fall short of sustained execution.
—Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Initiative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/initiative. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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