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Don’t think he’ll forget when it comes time to review you at the end of the year. The CO trusted you to follow through and now he’s on the hot seat. To make matters worse, a memo went out reminding everyone to sign-up early to prevent such a thing from happening. And the disappointment will roll downhill. If this causes the battalion to get certified late, it won’t go over well at the top. Miss the range and your platoon doesn’t shoot. *bounce*īut drop a glass ball and there are immediate consequences that may be detrimental to your career. The CO just suggested I check it – he didn’t say I had to. So it is really OK if I’m late once in a while. Only occasionally is there anything of any real value. I like to review our platoon’s suggestions each month but most of the items are complaints about things like double-duty and equipment maintenance that I can’t do anything about. You can think of these as rubber balls and glass balls.ĭrop a rubber ball and it will bounce harmlessly. But drop a critical task and you will have a problem on your hands. Drop a mundane task and nothing will happen, at least initially. Some will be mundane tasks like reviewing your platoon’s suggestion box, others will be critical like reserving a slot at the firing range for when your platoon is scheduled for marksmanship training. In the course of your career you will be faced with many tasks that compete for your time and attention. I’ve spent the last couple years looking for it on the web, but with no luck here is my attempt to recreate it from scratch, by memory. It was a compelling article that I’ve referred back to many times in life. When I was in the Army we all got a 2 page hard copy with a visual called “Rubber balls vs glass balls” as an analogy for balancing the many day to day priorities of being an Officer.