Of course in the business world people like to be asked to do something. But in some cases they also like to be told or even prefer it. If they are of low self esteem or ignorant. Respectively speaking there is an old uncle from my vintage that says you ask some to do something and if they don't do it you tell them which goes on and leads to dismissal if you still can't get the job done.

But simply you're employees should want to work for you anyway and if you have to continually tell them what to do they should be terminated. The fact is that management are telling different things that are going on in their business they are telling what people are or are not doing anyway. It might be considered a form of know or judging If you like. The reality remains though that manager that tells what is going wrong and fixes it survives.

A manager that knows what is done right is actually telling where he can improve or increase. Telling and turning go hand in hand they lead to productivity and turnover which are forms of generation and regeneration. It's almost like a life cycle system that renews and regenerate on a continual basis. Telling is just a byproduct of getting thing done, like noticing you're low in stock of something and reordering like recognising sales are bad and correcting that accordingly or like just seeing that you're staff take 1hr for lunch no more and no less. Sometimes a manager just knows everything, he sits back on his assets and ceases to be aware of what is going on around him. He becomes unproductive and obsolete just like the things he is trying to sell. He ceases to be efficient or worthwhile, because he is not telling what is going on Managers need the power and authority to tell.