Raffaella Rossini

Employee Experience at @lastminute_tech / biggest fan of @alfio_event and @c_bellone

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Petting your dog

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

You can’t tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humor when He made God’s perfect killing machines and they look like this. God said give them the cutest ears on the planet.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

I need this kind of peace.. they not worried about a thing

[Terry Kim @thewayofkaizen]

Apple spent millions designing boxes you'll throw away.

Microsoft laughed at them.

But this 'wasteful' obsession is now studied in design schools worldwide.

Here is the crazy psychological principle they discovered which changed sales forever:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One of these languages is not like the others

Two of them are actually different, but English got much more words coming from Latin than German did: that's why German words often (if not always) sound so different from Romance languages' and English' ones

[Posts Of Cats @PostsOfCats]

sound on 😂😂

[Raffaella Rossini @raffaellar]

What an inspiration!

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Mondays are not always the easiest day. But it’s all relative…

When you’ve been stuck in a cage for years used for breeding like little Phoenix was the simple freedom can mean everything.

He said it was the best morning of his life. Zoomies 🚀(1/4)

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

The Ocean Cleanup is looking forward to deploy in India!

Data collection in the rivers of Mumbai is starting in the next few weeks, with the aim to have Plan Mumbai ready for implementation (contingent on funding) by the end of the year.

[Raffaella Rossini @raffaellar]

@ramtop We were there a couple of weeks ago, I fell in love with it! There were so many people, though, that I felt like I was the only person on earth unaware that Sirmione is a must visit 😳

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

It’s extremely difficult to do great work in fear. Fight or flight blocks logical and creative reasoning.

This is why org health is paramount, and critical to the bottom line. These things are not separate, they’re parts of the functioning whole.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Britain summed up in one headline. It has everything: passive aggression, pettiness, mild protest, humour and overrunning roadworks. There’s even a grey sky. Bravo.

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

He had to be orange

[Rebecca Papin @RebeccaPapin]

Pilot (to my 5-year-old daughter a few days ago): Do you know you could be a flight attendant when you grow up?

5: I could also own the plane.

[Raffaella Rossini @raffaellar]

Stunning photos 👀 https://t.co/sjAVIQIb4h

[Raffaella Rossini @raffaellar]

"The 'work' of productivity is less about improving efficiency and more about improving effectiveness."

A Tiny Thought in the @farnamstreet weekly newsletter.

https://t.co/kAm7tbMFjB

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Mindmeld

Imagine you and your team are rowing a boat together. What will help you all get from Point A to Point B the fastest?

The first answer is: row hard! -- the faster you row, the faster you get to your destination!

The second answer is: row in the same direction! -- nothing is more frustrating than everyone rowing as hard as they can, but the boat goes nowhere because half the team is rowing forwards and half the team backwards.

The third answer is: row at the same time! -- If you watch an elite set of rowers, every single movement they make is in sync. There is even a person on the boat with a megaphone ensuring this real-time coordination!

--

Your product team at work is no different.

To be a high-performing team, these 3 ingredients are critical:

1. Work hard -- but recognize it is not enough. You must also...
2. Work towards the same direction AND
3. Work in a coordinated fashion

To do 2 and 3, the entire team must have the exact same map in their heads of the end destination, the route to take, and what each person's role is in traversing that route.

I think of this shared plan as having mindmeld.

If a team does not have mindmeld, it will instead reap pain — the entire spectrum from resentment ("Team X is the reason we're slow!") to sloppy output ("Z is not good enough!"); circular conversions ("I thought we were doing A first instead of B, now we're back to A?") to office politics ("Y impresses leadership by saying the right things but is not actually doing the work!").

If you are on a team and you do not sense everyone is on the same page, you need to make some noise about it.

I find this rolls off the tongue quite nicely: We do not have mindmeld.

Slow down and build that shared headspace to go faster.

[Alf.io @alfio_event]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You may have seen lots of ingenious solutions to keep squirrels away from bird feeders, from simple grease on the pole to highly engineered designs.

Yet, this one has probably one of the most hilarious outcomes.

[📹 Charlie Oliver]

[Raffaella Rossini @raffaellar]

The solution is not to pile on the perks.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

When you burn people out, you push them out. Stars are the first to leave—they have the most opportunities.

The solution is not to pile on the perks. It’s to pinpoint the root causes of overload and design more manageable jobs.

If you want to keep people, stop exhausting them.