# How to Boss Without Being Bossy – Holy Ghost Stories

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## What Jamie wrote

Interesting analysis of various ways to ask for a specific task to be done, gauging each one on clarity and harshness.

> The question we’ll answer today, then, is: how do you give a command in a way your team members will accept, won’t reject as “bossy,” and might even feel good about?

Words matter. 🤔

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## Appears in

- [WT270: Weekly Thing 270 / Panoramic, RCS, Finnegans](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/270/), Notable

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