While on active duty in the Marine Corps, some officers would criticize others who took special interest in how their company or battalion area looked and would claim (behind others backs of course) that this peer or that peer paid more attention to "form than substance".  The inference being that the peer who cared how his area looked spent less time training his men to fight.

But, I tell you, form matters too!  It is a corollary to my maxim in "So You Want to Be a Leader" that "part of being good is looking good" - looking good in your personal appearance, your work area/office, and yes, even your yard.  Someone once said that "I keep my yard mowed and hedges trimmed, because my name in the mailbox.

I wonder what young people are thinking when they decorate their bodies with tattoos that send a message to every prospective employer.  Maybe I am wrong, but I don't expect that time will yield many CEOs, COOs, or CFOs with tattoos on their necks and extremities.