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The language of leverage is pervasive. Indeed, it is so pervasive that we can cease to notice when it is used. So, just to illustrate the almost-unconscious use we make of leverage in everyday life, here are just a few samples from my own life in one random week: (1) A student in a seminar describes the work of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless as leveraging its success in Boston into a nationwide network of similar projects. (2) The members of the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee express their hope that the small seed grants given to new stem cell researchers in the state will be leveraged into NIH funding and into new jobs within the state. (3) My colleagues in public health argue that we should we should be able to leverage the increasing number of majors in the program into faculty lines and funding for talks and seminars.
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Dees, R.H. (2014). The Morality of Leverage and the Leverage of Morality. In: Anderson, D. (eds) Leveraging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06094-1_5
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