Nagging

Are they nagging you? Are you getting tired? Is it rather upsetting you? Yeah, I imagine it would be.

You are in charge. You are the boss, so to speak. You have your corner office, nameplate, and a plaque on the door. They come to you. They answer to you.

When you have your ideas, they come to you. They make the long walk to your office out of their cubicle and they come to you. They brave all the stares watching them, murmuring don't go in there and they come to you. They brave all the warnings telling them he's not going to listen to you, go back and they come to you. They have the gall. They come to you. You are the boss, after all.

Those little thoughts, little dreams, you've been having, they're stood around the cooler in the break room right now. They've got their cups, they've got their coffees, all stood around, trying to figure out who to send next, who's going to be the sacrifice who walks to your door.

You've got a culture of fear, you know. Quite the company culture you've set up here. You've got a nice strong culture of fear. They are afraid of you. They come to you and they are afraid of you. They don't even want to come to you, but they do, and they're afraid of you. They're afraid of nagging you, afraid you'll break, afraid you'll scream. But they come to you anyhow. Because they have to.

They don't want to, but they want to because they have to. They have a duty to themselves and you, so they have to. You have final say, so they can't really go beyond you. They can't do what's best for you and go beyond you. They have to. They come to you because they have to. You are in charge.

Sometimes they'll try, different departments will go beyond you. They'll do what they think best, they'll follow instincts, and go beyond you. But they may fail and there are consequences, after all. Because they'll still have to answer to you. You are the boss, after all.

You are the boss, you have your nameplate and plaque on the door. You receive the final outcomes, the final say, the final profits, and the final result of the work each department does. But it is not you doing all the work each department does. It is not you committing to the most minute of tasks, the most "automatic" tasks, the most fundamental tasks, it is not you doing all the mundane tasks your company was built upon. All the work it wouldn't survive without. It is your parts. The people you employ. The parts you employ. They make this work. It is them. Your job is to listen.

Your job is to listen to what they tell you and make decisions. Your job is to aggregate all of their knowledge, all of their work, and make it work. You could not make it work if you did not have their work to work with in the first place. So they are who makes it work, but you make it work. Because you listen. That is your place.

You aggregate what they tell you and make it work. You will apply reason and further thinking to make it work. You are going to apply your own knowledge to theirs and make it work. You have people demanding things of you, deals to make, and you will make it work. You will take what they tell you of your knowledge, of your business, of your operations, you will combine it with your knowledge, your knack for business, your independent operations, and you'll combine it with outside knowledge, what you know of other businesses, and other companies and their operations, and all together, you will make it work. Make it work. But first, you listen. Because they know what you don't.

Otherwise, you lack key knowledge. You will collapse. Your business will collapse. Your company will "fail" [all failure promotes success if you allow it to]. Your operations will not meet the ends you desired.

Are they nagging you? Maybe. Maybe the issue is you see your parts as nagging you. They are relentless, yes. But they do it because they have to. And they are no more relentless than you would like to be in "chasing your dreams". They will not stop. They will continue to tell you things they've already told you. Because they have to. Again and again, because their commitment to your success and their success is greater than any fear you've instilled in them. They will not stop because they have their duties to fulfil at the end of the day. No matter how much you scare them. They are far too principled. They will not disappear.

You should be proud.