After all, Mark reached out to them, not the other way around. You need your team members to be proactive when it comes to being included in planning and communication. It’s easy to forget to include someone on an email, or think of Bob as a resource when you seldom hear from him. On a far less drastic scale, this happens all the time. They assumed (never assume!) Mark was dead, so didn’t take him into account in their planning. In the ultimate example of “out of sight, out of mind,” the team at NASA was trying to save the rest of the crew. Mark Watney needed to stay alive, but if he concentrated only on immediate needs (like breathing), he’d die of starvation so he laid out a plan that maximized both short term goals (like respiration) with long term goals (planting potatoes for the calories).
You’re probably not lacking for motivation here. So, you’ve been left for dead 40 million miles from home with limited resources and you’d like to survive. If people are engaged and motivated, they can get a lot of work done without supervision.Either way, there are some things you can learn about working remotely from this entertaining story of a very smart guy, stuck in a very bad place. Of course, if reading takes too long, you can always use the “audio-visual” version: (watch the movie.) We won’t rat you out. So, I’m going to make a somewhat silly recommendation: Read “The Martian,” by Andy Weir. While we’re sure that if you’re reading this you probably aren’t among that depressing number there’s no doubt that few of us are doing all the research and learning we would like to. Not to be snarky about it, but it’s a little disheartening to think that 42% of Americans didn’t read a single non-fiction book last year, and 28% didn’t read a book at all.
Business books are so darned serious, and it’s not like we have a lot of spare time to dedicate to self-improvement. As leaders, we need to constantly educate ourselves and that can seem a bit onerous.
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