This list excludes the way 80%+ of the commands that the leadership at my company issues tend to be done. Sure, small one-off requests from someone senior might be phrased in some of the ways mentioned in this post. Or, more commonly, something a bit more conversational like “hey can you do X”, or “we need Y by Wednesday, are you up to the task?” But the vast majority of commands from higher up aren’t issued as commands at all. Bosses don’t just tell people what to do next, it’s a collaborative process and a discussion. The team is aligned on our future goals and there’s a degree of self selecting projects to be assigned to, where the things we work on will flow naturally from our project goals. Trying to pick the best wording for what really amounts to opaque non-collaborative decision making from the top just seems like a terrible company culture.