This issue is specially put together to demystify what happiness at the workplace really means. In our Theme based Section we have articles that uncover the various layers of seeking and spreading happiness. We take you behind the scenes of the super gadget-our brain and unveil the physiology behind happiness. In our face to face section, we
bring you two different perspectives on happiness-one that gives inputs on how managers in the corporate world
can help their teams find happiness and the other that reinforces that it is all about spreading happiness and not just finding happiness.

While happiness is the buzzword and organizations are hiring ‘Happiness officers’, we try to find out the ‘what’s in
it for me ?’ for organizations. What is the correlation between productivity, performance and employee happiness?
We also attempt to decode various aspects of happiness at the workplace-at the self, manager and the
organizational level.

In this issue of Perfect Professional, we have captured the thinking of some optimistic minds on how a good boss sets the right example for the rest of the organization. We have covered different aspects of this relationship in articles like Managing Power Distance for effective superior-subordinate relationships, Managing Yourself as the key to Managing The Boss, It’s Not So Much About Managing Bosses, It’s More About Learning From Them...., Manage Your Attitude and Not Your Boss etc.  
In our Face to Face interviews, we look at different perspectives on this topic from the author of two books as well as from the world of consulting. In our wellness and wellbeing section, we look at preventive healthcare as part of corporate culture. In our Personal Effectiveness section, you will find insights on what next after becoming self-aware as well as one article on effective ways of managing meetings. Our People Practices and Talent Management section has four diverse articles discussing a variety of issues like teamwork as dream work, building joyful workplaces and ROI on training. 
The icing on the cake is an exclusive article by globally admired author, speaker, management coach, professor and co-founder of The RBL Group, Dr. Dave Ulrich.

Delegation-More or less? by Marshall Glodsmith.

Effective Delegation is built on the fundamental Piller of Trust

Adopting a project Mindset The key to a bright future.

Corporate Stress is a humble endeavor to help us understand ‘stress’ at the workplace and its effect on our daily lives-at home and at work. Does individual stress affect teams and organizations? What are the physiological effects of stress? What are some of the ways to beat stress? Why is it important to understand stress? While stress is a given, how can one cope with it? What is the correlation between emotional intelligence and individual stress? Yet more significant, is stress triggered by external parameters or internal? These are some of the questions that we hope to analyze and answer in our Theme based section on Corporate Stress. We also attempt to decode various aspects of stress at the workplace-at the personal, occupational and the organizational level.

Failure in our issue has been demystified, at three different levels (individual, team and institutional/organizational level). This issue lays emphasis on how we can manage and learn from them. In our theme based sections, we have tried to capture different thoughts from the corporate world, the government, entertainment and medical field. Our authors have given us valuable insights from their experiences and learning’s and we hope that these different perspectives of ‘Failure’ will bring to you a heightened awareness of the lessons that your setbacks (which were carefully planted in our lives) were meant to bring.

Our interviews have captured two interesting perspectives of Learning from Failures-one that focuses on what the term failure means to the young brigade, today and the other that gives us an interesting take on how our approach to failure is largely determined by our mind.

Our wellbeing section has interesting insights of management of failures through Past Life Regression.
In the People practices and Talent Management section, our first article is about decoding the terms accountability & ownership for a successful work life and the other talks about the brand new frequency to tune in to listen to employee engagement chartbusters.

Our objective is to give you a holistic, refreshing and enriching read and renewed way of looking at opportunities for growth and learning. We hope that this will be a first step for many of us to talk about our failures openly and confidently and achieving wholeness that we are made for.

A great philosophy that guides many of us in life is, “Keep your success close and the learning’s from failure closer”.

Do share your views and feedback on this issue. We would love to know each of your stories and how your have learnt and unlearnt.

High Performance teams comprise individuals who come together to convert to reality an important objective of the organization through their motivation, commitment, collaboration, drive and unity of purpose. These ‘High Performance’ teams chart the way the world thinks, communicates and connects!

In Donald J Bodwells words, High Performance Teams are highly adaptive, difficult to build, expensive to maintain and glorious to behold. While the journey to high performance is an ongoing one, this issue of
Perfect Professional takes you behind the scenes to bring clarity and understanding into what constitutes high performing teams, what works and what doesn’t. We seek to answer fundamental questions of whether ‘teamwork’ is something that we are naturally tuned into or does it need to be consciously developed. Is the term ‘High Performance Team’ explicitly defined and understood or is it still an implied phenomenon? Are organizations making them a priority? We attempt to decode some of these mysteries and look at what organizations and individuals can do, to create and sustain high performing teams. Lone geniuses are out.

Collaboration is in. Today, most of us work in teams, in offices without cubicles, and in organizations where people skills are prized above all. The organization, the leadership team and HR-each has their own role to play in creating and nurturing high performing teams. This is the focus in our theme based articles. 

We have taken examples of high performing teams from the corporate world as well as the world of sports and medicine. Also featured are pointers for managing ‘High Performance Virtual Teams’. Our interviews have captured two interesting perspectives of High performing teams, one that focuses on Self-Managed Teams and the other on a team that strives to come together to fight disease and death
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Execution excellence does not refer to simple tactics, but to a discipline for meshing strategy with reality, aligning people with goals, and achieving the promised results. This involves getting things done through
 Planning, questioning, analysis and follow-through. As managers progress in their careers and lead teams, they not only need to excel in individual execution, but also champion execution excellence in their respective teams as well. 

Perfect Professional dedicates this issue to execution excellence, acknowledging it as the bridge between aspirations and results. Readers can experience the ‘Edge’ with the experiences we bring you in execution across sectors. 

We start with a simple tool to help you assess your Execution Quotient and share with you what Execution focused managers and leaders do. This is followed by 6 insights on how individuals and champion teams win consistently, through predictable and superior execution. We have also shared with you insights on execution excellence from Japanese Management and Lean Management. Our journey goes on to the floriculture industry to give you a different perspective of execution. Moving to the construction terrain we then take you to the pioneers of project execution in India-L&T. In our face to face section, you get to meet the founder of Parkman, who articulates the ingredients of her success story. Closely following her story is the “40 day magic”- an interview with Prof. Pillai on his brilliant and persistent approach to setting up a B school. 

The Wellbeing section of our magazine draws your attention to ways to balance the space available in life while another article focuses on effective anger management. The section on People Practices identifies behavioral markers to spot a disengaged team member and to take preventive Measures.
 
Giving an edge to your performance is what this issue “The Execution Edge” attempts to highlight and we hope your takeaway is for real.

What better way to celebrate Gen Y, than to dedicate this issue of Perfect Professional to them. A lot of effort has gone in to decode Gen Y. Our theme based articles give us insights on what shapes this generation and their characteristics. The \'Kaliedoscope ‘explores their formidable presence at the work place through the lens of 5 different industries-event management, retail, construction, airlines and BPO.

Our interviews have captured two interesting perspectives-one on Gen Y and the other from Gen Y. One brings out how labels are merely labels and the need to look beyond. The other interview describes the unconventional journey of agent Y and his spiritual pursuits. \'Gen Y Turk in Action\' is all about the dynamism and forthrightness of youth in enterprise.

We have also looked at how academia is responding to the needs of this generation-the changes in curriculum, teaching methodologies and other areas. It makes us sit up and look at this generation that is stating their dreams and aspirations loud and clear. This issue\'s \'profession in focus\' features rather unique profession-a Radio Jockey. It brings out the nuances involved in this profession and a few other qualities required to excel in this Gen Y career option.

We have a new section titled \'Personal Effectiveness\' towards the end of this issue. The self-test helps you ascertain how personally effective you are. We offer the readers a few suggestions as they move into the self-exploration mode. We hope you enjoy reading all the articles, as much as we enjoyed putting them together.

The need for entrepreneurship is everywhere-from individuals within and outside organizations, to family run businesses and youngsters. We have tried to share perspectives from varied lenses. The first article gives us a close-up view of what really constitutes an entrepreneurial personality and a short exercise to test one’s own Entrepreneurial Quotient (EQ). The next article talks about fostering entrepreneurial thinking in family run businesses. We have dedicated the next section to carry inspiring stories of entrepreneurship across industries-in the medical and education field, as well as in the social sector. In the article ‘Age no bar’, we have explored how entrepreneurship cuts across ages, even post retirement. On the other hand, our face-to-face interview gives fresh insights into women entrepreneurs in the financial sector, hoping to inspire others to pursue something dear to their heart. We have also included an article on ‘Why startups fail to scale’ to explore the challenges that may result in the startup not being as successful as it had hoped to be.

The beauty of leadership is that it can be found across functions, across levels and across all ages. We have tried to put together various articles dealing with different perspectives on leadership-should it be built or bought, if it is to be built what are some of the tools that we have? How can one evaluate leadership through a financial prism? Etc. We have also included a conversation on building leadership in youngsters.

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