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How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)

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Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)

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You've heard of the "royal we"? This is the "executive I". Where the potentate uses the former to lend the weight of the many to their words, the executive uses the latter to take personal credit for the work of many and thereby justify the weightiness of their own salary.

>"executive I". haha fair enough. Haven't heard that phrasing before

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