If you've been blessed to work at great companies with inspirational bosses and teams with great vibes... this episode is not for you! In this 3 part series, this one is about Bosses... yes the ones that stress us out with their toxic ways!

Is your current salary directly propotional to the number of job changes you've had? How many times have you quit as the new employer accelerated your CTC by a few years? Have you been a rolling stone to reach your current compensation? Are you at below market level salary because you stayed too long on a job?

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Is it double standards when we go out to hire talent from competition, but belittle the same competition when a colleague joins them? Is there a classier way to raise our brand without putting down a competitor? When competition hires talent from our teams, can we consider it a compliment rather than feeling betrayed?

This sequel to Episode 11 is all about things we get wrong in carrying out successions. The fault-lines, heartburns and conflicts behind how we end up choosing successors. Failed succession plans are not a rarity, and its these failures that have driven the whole Executive Search industry.

If your successor does better than you, would you claim the credit and give the successor the credit? Who would you credit or blame for a succession gone bad? The management, or the outgoing leader or the new incumbent?

Are there roles you would like to just for the thrills of it? Or because you want to be a Hero? Have you felt used for stretch roles at work? Have you been lucky to bask in the glory of a role because someone else laid the foundation? If you answered Yes to one or more of the questions... then this episode is just for you!

No two C-Suite interviews are the same... even if it's the same candidate and at times even if it's the same interviewer! There are no playbooks for these high-stake exchanges where the company and the candidate are courting each other. Should one be aggressive or cautious about promises to deliver? If things do not work out, should the engagement always end bitter or sour? Is there a way to be prepared for the seesaws that C-Suite interviews are?

Getting fired from work is unfortunate irrespective of how and when it happens? No one has immunity against it, when the need and conditions for it arise in an enterprise. Is there a way to spot the signs of a firing or layoff coming up? Warning signals that one can pick up? In today's uncertain economic conditions, to have a playbook for responding to a layoff?

How do our skills and persona make a deadly combination? We all have that one Achilles' Heel that acts up at the wrong moment and creates unexpected tripping moments and undesirable outcome. All that skill and experience built over a career-span comes down to that point where our persona takes over. Which is your most irritating trait of yours that trips your colleagues, bosses and peers? Can it be fixed?

Do we go all out to Celebrate at work? Or do we underplay and always keep it a shade lower than personal celebrations? Does celebrating at work create a bond or set wrong precedence? Why should we celebrate and what's the sustainable guilt-free way to Celebrate at Work?