Minute 78: great comebacks are not improvised, they are trained
Argentina turned a match around in fourteen minutes. Organisations have their minute 78 too, and what shows up then is the culture you built over the years.
Diego Papasergio
Enecuatro
By Diego Papasergio, Architect and Director of Enecuatro.
Minute 78. Argentina was losing 2-0 and on the verge of elimination from the 2026 World Cup. Fourteen minutes later, the match had been turned around.
Many will talk about character, attitude or guts. And of course all of that is necessary. But a comeback of that calibre is not born only from the emotion of the moment. It is born much earlier.
It comes from a group that trained thousands of times to respond under pressure. From leadership that builds trust. From players who know their role, trust their teammates and hold on to the same idea even when the score is against them.
An organisation’s minute 78
Companies have them too: a project that gets complicated, a difficult client, a tender that seems to be slipping away, or a site that forces you to reinvent the plan.
In those moments, asking for one more push is not enough. What really shows up is the culture you built over the years: the processes, the preparation, the way you lead and the trust between people.
At Enecuatro we deeply believe in that. It is very close to what we had already reflected on about the Scaloni method: first build a team, then the results come.
Because great comebacks are not improvised. They are trained.
A question worth asking
When your organisation’s minute 78 arrives, do you trust your team is ready to turn the match around, or do you depend on an individual heroic?
Originally published on LinkedIn.
