When you run a company, from time to time, you may think your employees want to run the company their way. Perhaps, it isn’t that the employees want to run the company their way. Perhaps, they just don’t want the company run your way. In other words, they have differing views on how a company should be run and they think your approach needs to be changed.

When you are the leader of the company, that sort of employee feedback can be a very hard pill to swallow. When you are an entrepreneurial leader, creating the workplace for all those people, criticism can be a particularly hard pill to swallow. [Many entrepreneurs express this concern/frustration.]

Whether people want the company run their way or don't want it run your way amounts to a similar thing - criticism of the leader's methods. While for most people the natural reaction is to take offense to criticism, a better approach is to step back and figure out why your people object to your methods.

Whether you like it or not your people are annoyed with you. And their feedback is making that clear to you.

When you annoy people, you don’t make money!

When you don't annoy people, you have a chance to make money!

PS:  This isn't about who's right and who's wrong. It's about differing viewpoints and, depending on how you choose to view them, differing viewpoints are either opportunities to learn or sources of relentless frustration. [Perhaps, remembering "When you annoy people, you don't make money!" will help you make the right choice.]