Letting your team do whatever they want isn’t leadership.

I know everybody likes to hate on Dave Ramsey and make fun of him, like, oh, how can you get by without debt? I actually really love the guy. Do I agree with everything he says? No. Is he usually right on the things I disagree with him on? Yeah. And one of the things he's been beating into my head recently is that if you're the leader in your business, you don't have to apologize for wanting things to be done a certain way. I don't know where it comes from, but I had this idea in my head that I, like, had to let my team kind of work however they want, whenever they want. Like, as long as the work gets done, it's all cool. It's like, no. I'm the person who sets the standards for my company, for my business, for the team that works under me. And if I want the team to meet those standards, we're going to do it a certain way. Am I asking questions? Am I taking their feedback into account? Obviously, yes. But at the end of the day, my job as a leader is to tell everybody what to do and make sure they have what it takes to get it done. And if I'm not doing that, then I'm not doing my job as a leader in my company. And at the end of the day, if things don't go according to plan, I want it to be my fault for giving them the wrong directions, not their fault for doing it wrong.