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The Harbaugh Way: A Power Outage and Improbable Comeback

How the 49ers changed the tone of last night's game and what business leaders can learn from the Harbaugh way of coaching.

By Christopher Tidball | Updated on February 04, 2013

All it took was a 30-minute power outage to turn a pretty unimpressive game into one for the ages. The 2013 Super Bowl began to take on the look of a blowout as the Ravens racked up a commanding halftime lead. The commercials seemed a little less funny than in recent years, and the halftime performance was only slightly better than the 2011 Black Eyed Peas debacle. Then the power went out, and everything changed.

Why is it that a 30-minute reprieve from being demolished by Ray Lewis and company was all the San Francisco 49ers needed to change the tone of the game? A lot of the credit goes to coach Jim Harbaugh, who nearly pulled a rabbit out of the hat against his brother John. 

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