The feeling just before taking a big risk, turning a private belief into a public commitment and the accountability that creates, leveraging the kind of transparency that creates vulnerability and the potential for transformation.
Whether he was speaking from the heart or trying to create leverage, the Mets should have known better.
Could significantly more value - for the company, host governments, and local communities - be created by leveraging the company's core operations, such as increasing the amount of goods and services purchased from local suppliers?
He has spent the last year creating Zen Protocol, leveraging the blockchain technology and the popularity of Bitcoin to try to decentralize the financial system by building a new protocol purpose-built for finance.
And then was ready to negotiate and he had created leverage.
It's the logistic network that accrues the power and creates leverage over the supplier to benefit customers with the lowest prices.
There was a distant echo of Shultz in Pompeo's opening statement to the Senate: "The military balance of power," he said, "can set the stage and create leverage, but the best outcomes are always won at the diplomatic table". Trump is no Ronald Reagan.
It is not all bad news – For products or services with low price points and/or margins, having customers direct themselves through the sales process can help reduce the cost of sale and/or create leverage for the sales force.
I worked closely with those folks and loved it, but I'm interested in Sales Operations rather than in having a sales territory, so I decided to find something less focused on IT and more targeted at creating leverage for the sales force.
The 33-page complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges a duplicitous scheme in which the Qatari group paid only a portion of its agreed-upon investment and withheld the rest of the money to create leverage, all with the goal of fracturing the league leadership and eventually muscling its way into a controlling interest.
