7 Daily Habits To Be an Excellent Boss
All hell broke loose.
Someone had left a corner of their bed untucked. The Marine Corps drill instructors saw it as an accountability failure of all 73 of us recruits and proceeded to take every mattress, every footlocker, and every steel bedframe and pile it into a mountain in the center of the barracks. It was Boot Camp and we were being taught the basics of attention to detail.
Later, as we pulled the tornado pile of beds, blankets, and steel off the pile in an attempt to reorganize, I learned a valuable lesson —details matter. Oh, and make your damn bed!
Everything you do is important. Attention to those little details is important. Because the little things you do add up to the leader you are.
This was reinforced in a speech to college graduates by retired Navy SEAL Admiral William McRaven:
“If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life…
