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The article discusses the decline in the number of executive-level employees who said they had suffered attempts from co-workers to make them look bad from 2008 to 2015. Topics covered include strategies executives utilize when a colleague tried to make them look bad such as direct confrontation and complaining to the human resources (HR) department, categories of workplace saboteurs, and ways to prevent sabotaging co-workers from succeeding in their efforts.

The article offers information on a survey conducted by CO2 Partners, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based executive coaching organization, on the reluctance of supervisors to take advice from employees. The survey found that one-third of the 599 employees surveyed had never been asked how to handle a problem in office. Managers seldom asked for advice from lower educated employees and women. It was also found that 32.6% had never or seldom been asked for advice by their boss and only 62.6% had often or occasionally. Gary Cohen, president of CO2 Partners, had used the survey in preparation for writing a book on effective leadership.

The article reports on the Badbossology.com survey about the impeding manners of executives in the U.S. The survey, which was supported by Development Dimensions International Inc., documented the most habitual manner chiefs uses to infract trust with their employees and has proved that bosses' subjective conclusions without checking first facts is the top ground. In fact, out of 700 respondents, thirty percent signified that it was the most inexcusable conduct a boss could act to discontinue their trust. Other answers include failing their assurance, displaying discrimination and many others.