Who leads in corporate world, Reactive or Responsive?

There are two type of behaviors in people, reactive and responsive. Both behaviors co-exist. Both have their own roles to play. Both have their importance. In certain industry, one need to be dominating, in other industry other need to be dominating.

In corporate world which behavior leads?


Reactive people take fast decision, faster action and almost instant results. This is useful for people in physical work and execution. This is very useful when individual's actions are not directly impacting others.


Responsive people are choosy about their decisions, and hence slower. They prefer to analyze and foresee the end repercussion of their actions and based on that they take decisions. They are effective when their decisions and actions are impacting many other people, or when they are part of bigger teams. And most effective when they are leading a team. 


If we go more in depth of reactive and responsive people, we can find that reactive people are driven by emotions and responsive people are driven by intentions. Because of emotional surge, reactive people at times do certain things which they didn't intend to do hence create trouble for themselves and others. Be it any emotion, positive or negative, a high quantity of it put reactive people in trouble. 


On other hand responsive people remain non reactive to their emotions. They decide and act based on their intentions hence have long term impact. 


Reactive people may do some good work or progress faster in short term but in long term they find themselves stuck or entangled in the web created by their own reactive decisions and actions. 


People working in corporate need to be good team players. Hence people who are responsive than reactive climb higher ladders in corporate. Responsive people take decision with farsightedness hence benefits self and  everyone around. 


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