So obviously bluffing is still the fault of the guy doing it, but I feel like the non leaders play some role in it. In sort of competitive environments where the people aren’t very informed and don’t seem to have high moral standards, sometimes I’ll see random employees who want to increase their status barrage specialists with minute and usually largely irrelevant questions and then try to paint the specialist as stupid or dishonest if he doesn’t answer all of them. So it becomes important to BS people to get them to shut up. Many seem to substitute this for competence, leading to a downward hellspiral