There's really no way around it, SimCity 4 can be a tough game if you're poor at managing fake people, fake money, and fake cities. But you have these guys to help you out. They're your advisors.
Their job is to tell you how terrible of a job you're doing, and that they need you to spend more money in their pet area to make the city really awesome.
But, what would happen if you, say, held down Ctrl + Alt + Shift +X? Then you might see this box pop up in the corner of your screen.
This is a pretty fun box, it lets you put in all kinds of stuff to really mess with the game. For instance, if you put in the phrase "DollyLlama" (without quotes, natch), and then reopen your advisors tab, you'll notice that they've gotten new heads.
Yep, all your advisors are now llama-headed, which kind of takes the edge off what they have to say, you know?
If, for some reason, you want to give them back their human visages, you just repeat the code. But, I'm really not sure why you'd want to.