This weekend the movie chronicling the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs will be hitting theaters across the country.

If you were to choose a few words to describe Jobs, what are some that come to mind? I’d opt for brilliant, obsessive, revolutionary, demanding, persuasive, arrogant, and genius.

Like many successful business owners, Steve Jobs started Apple in his garage with a great idea, huge vision, and an eye for detail. One of the stories told about his obsessive eye for detail involves the design of the inside of his computers.

Not only did he expect Apple computers to look beautiful and simple from the outside, but he also expected his engineering and design team to achieve the same on the inside of the machine. It didn’t matter to Jobs that customers would never see it. His team was a group of functional artists. He wanted to make sure they understood that every detail of the art they created truly mattered.

Chances are you don’t walk around your dairy every day, obsessing over every detail. After all, who’s going to see everything? It’s not like you have visitors show up every day, right? Wrong.

Each day, your team comes to your farm and they see all of the details around them… until they eventually don’t. Day after day, we all get accustomed to our surroundings and just accept them as they are. At some dairies, clean and tidy is the standard. At others, weeds and garbage is normal.

This week, take a walk around your entire dairy and try seeing it as a visitor would. Use the bathroom, sit down in the break room, go around the back of your barns. No, your visitors won’t get an all-access pass at your farm, but your employees do.

Good or bad, your farm’s appearance sends a message to your employees. In the end, it doesn’t matter if “anybody” is going to see it. Your team does, and they’re everybody who matters.

Last week, one of my business credit cards was charged for purchases I never made. I had to dispute the fraudulent charges and cancel my old card. I was fortunate. The damage was minimal and getting things back in order was only a slight hassle.

The thing that bothers me the most is that I still don’t know how it happened. I tried to recall how it might have been compromised… who, when, and where did my number get lifted? Somehow, someone got into my account and used it to make fraudulent purchases.

I imagine these scammers are pretty successful at sneaking a few $15 charges onto a lot of people’s cards. Had I not been paying attention, I probably would have been on the hook for more than just $30. It made me wonder how many of these “minor security breaches” I’ve missed over the years. And no, not just financial ones.

Every day, we’re consumed by ‘busyness’ and we overlook little things that cost us time, money, energy, and valuable peace of mind. We’re consumed by so many “big things” that we can’t be bothered with the little ones.

Chances are it’s no different with your business. Many overburdened managers trust that if everything appears to be moving, it must be moving forward. Unfortunately, “everybody is working” doesn’t mean that “everything is working”. Your team probably sees what’s going on, but what about you? Unless you pay attention to what everybody’s doing on a regular basis, you won’t know what’s really happening down in the trenches.

Sadly, the people and the forces that do the most damage to your business usually come from within. Pay attention, ask questions, and be decisive.