Title: "Executwits: A Guide for Recognizing, Imitating, or Surviving Bad Executives" (Translation). This book offers a critique of business culture, focusing on the back-biting, social-climbing, and inefficiency that, the author argues, have come to typify most offices. This book offers an in-depth of the personality types of the executives whose behavior enables and often encourages these negative practices. Key terms. Periods: 20th century--Forms: Sociology.