![]() ![]() In his 1906 Poetry and the Individual, Hartley Burr Alexander uses the phrase leaning into the future. But this kind of leaning does not capture Sandberg’s metaphorical extension of lean in.īen Zimmer points out perhaps the earliest example of leaning in a business environment from a 1941 issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly: “Kent Cooper is leaning into it at Columbia Business.” This more figurative type of leaning echoes earlier extended usages. You can lean into a pitch, or throw, or catch as well. Traditionally lean in has been used in the context of sports to mean “to shift one’s body weight forward or toward someone or something.” In water and snow sports, you can lean into a wave, the wind, a slope, or a turn. What is the traditional meaning of lean in? In fact, this term existed before Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg started using lean in to encourage women to embrace challenge and risk in the workplace. As flashy and fun as the terms selfie and binge-watch are, it’s important to keep in mind another, more business-casual buzzword of the 2010s: lean in.
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