Finding leverage in such an environment often means pushing hard at the margins, improvising better than other teams, and maximizing flexibility and versatility.
In 2013, environmental campaigners believed they had found leverage to help change the palm oil industry.
Find leverage points in the problem Having identified their place in the core problem, stakeholders can begin to find places where they can compromise to reach a mutual benefit.
If the Sadrists use their new-found leverage in a similar fashion at a national level, forcing the Iraqi government to back them in local feuds with the occupying forces, the already strained relations between the UIA and the American authorities may fray even more.
Student protest leaders have found little leverage in their demands for greater democracy, and police have been cautious about taking action after previous attempts to clear protest sites only led to influxes of demonstrators.
It's been tried and talked before, but what is different this time is you've got a businessman who has become president of the United States, who understands real leverage and how to find real leverage in that relationship," he said.
The battle over the evacuation plan began in the late 1970's but was renewed after the terrorist attack in 2001, when plant opponents found they had leverage in the information that the four counties surrounding the plant are asked to provide the federal government every two years.
Our analysis found $1.5 trillion dollars in embedded leverage in bond funds through derivatives.
Which made me think of the New Radicals, and how they are moving between sectors and silos like never before (New Radicals are people who've found ways to leverage the skills acquired in their careers, and put them to work on the world's greatest challenges - for more, please see archived articles).
Workers might get money for nothing, but they'd also find themselves with dwindling leverage in their workplaces.
In all these cases, old-technology firms found ways of leveraging the differences in performance between the old and new technologies, rather than attempting to eliminate them.
