{"id":5772,"date":"2016-06-09T21:43:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T04:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T04:43:39","slug":"say-potato-sayleadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/say-potato-sayleadership\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say Potato, I Say\u2026Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/say-potato-sayleadership\/attachment\/leadership-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leadership.jpg\" alt=\"leadership and potatoes\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leadership.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leadership-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leadership-480x316.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A few months ago, several members of my family attended our local theater to see,\u00a0<em>The Martian<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0While we were thoroughly entertained by the variety of dilemmas, science, humor and suspense, there was a subtle nudge I took from the film that I used for a new way to enjoy a long-standing activity with my children.<\/p>\n<p>A botanist by the name of Dr. Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon), who was errantly left behind by his colleagues, must figure out how to make the remaining food he has last long enough until the next mission to mars occurs\u2014some four years away.\u00a0\u00a0Soon, Watney determines that his best chance to survive will come from rationing the remaining food at the base station and to supplement that by replanting and growing the existing potatoes.\u00a0\u00a0This becomes a quite interesting segment of the story as we learn and see how Watney makes this possible.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few years, my family and I have enjoyed participating in the care and cultivation of a community garden space.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve grown nearly two dozen varieties of vegetables and fruits that we\u2019ve enjoyed complementing our dinner table with in the form impressive side dishes, salads and fresh deserts.\u00a0\u00a0But one thing we\u2019d never thought to grow was potatoes.\u00a0\u00a0The garden space is quite modest: perhaps less than 250 square feet of growing space.\u00a0\u00a0But being outdoors and sharing in the learning of fundamental lessons such as planning, commitment, patience and care have allowed my wife and I to see our youngest children become 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plants mature fully until they had completed their growth cycle and then wilt down, signifying the completing of the term for our desired potato harvest.\u00a0\u00a0During this time, we regularly visited the garden a few times a week.\u00a0\u00a0We maintained it, watered it, and even talked to it in encouraging tones, as we also tended to the other vegetables we had planted.\u00a0\u00a0Having a target date of May 31<sup>st<\/sup>, we grew a bit more excited because the kids did not entirely understand how one potato could create several more potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>May 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0came, and when we arrived to the garden, each of the kids began to carefully pull up one stem as a time and looked on in amazement as a string of potatoes followed up from the ground.\u00a0\u00a0In some cases, as many as 11 potatoes were on the vine, though most averaged about 5-7.\u00a0\u00a0As they did, my children quickly began to understand the power of the potato, and I began to explain to them why 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