How can you take initiative?

What it is: act alert. Signal instantly: situations, problems, ideas or obstacles. See work and act on it. What you do: go for it, collect information, do business. Make proposals, do research, see opportunities and grab them. In practice: Vin Mariani was a popular drink at the end of the 19th century. Pharmacist John Pemberton thought he was smart in making his own version: Pemberton's French Wine Coca. This was in middle of the great prohibition in America so everything with alcohol in it was prohibited. He removed the alcohol from the drink, replaced it with sugar syrup, and named something else: Coca-Cola.