The advice "give orders" and applies even independently of knowing what you want.

If you don't know the desired end result, how can you possibly modulate your "giving orders" in a way that will produce that result, vs. another way that will produce the result of "creepy", "bossy", "socially inept", etc.? Merely saying to "give orders" without any indication of what you're trying to accomplish doesn't strike me as particularly informative.

If someone had told me to "give orders" without the other context, there is no way I could possibly have gotten it right -- which is why I'm saying it's imprecise, and missing important information. For me, it is.