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Cory Edwards\u2019 team was a few outs away from losing the Little League World Series final 11-2, when he gathered his players for a quick talk. What he said went viral, and it\u2019s just as useful in a boardroom as it is in the dugout.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, listen, no matter what happens, you have to hold your head up,\u201d Little League coach Edwards told his team from Henderson, Nevada, in a moment captured on ESPN. \u201cWhen it gets tough, you get tougher.\u201d The 17-second clip wasn\u2019t rehearsed, he said in an interview, it just came out in the moment.<\/p>\n
Edwards, who works as a manager at Starbucks in the off season, told The New York Times<\/a> that the message wasn\u2019t really about the scoreboard. \u201cHow you respond to challenges shows a lot about your character,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a leadership lesson worth borrowing for anyone building a business. Losses happen, funding flops, launches bomb. What separates people who recover from people who don\u2019t often comes down to resilience.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you don\u2019t lose the right way, if you don\u2019t hold your head up and go about it the right way, sometimes that sour taste in your mouth is going to wash away all the great things you did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Cory Edwards\u2019 team was a few outs away from losing the Little League World Series final 11-2, when he gathered his players for a quick talk. What he said went viral, and it\u2019s just as useful in a boardroom as it is in the dugout.<\/p>\n \u201cHey, listen, no matter what happens, you have to hold your head up,\u201d Little League coach Edwards told his team from Henderson, Nevada, in a moment captured on ESPN. \u201cWhen it gets tough, you get tougher.\u201d The 17-second clip wasn\u2019t rehearsed, he said in an interview, it just came out in the moment.<\/p>\n