Donna Sherriff is a New Zealand based improvement and operations management specialist. Seeing a need for simple, no fuss, improvement advice she started The Lean Minimalist blog in 2017. Donna writes articles offering advice and tips for rapid and sustainable business improvement based on over 15 years in Senior Management roles.
Passionate about sharing the lessons of over 20 years on the high performance track Donna offers coaching services to professionals. She also writes about her own personal improvement journey, minimalism, and her life long struggle against the tyranny of cookies and sugar which she overcame in 2020. These days, Donna is pursuing a journey to earn her black belt in Taekwondo after a long hiatus of 16 years away from training.
In June 2019 Donna published an essay collection of her lean blog posts titled 'Start Today with Lean'
I am a student of business as much as a student of life. I am fascinated by what makes a good business great and no one has done more research […]
Every musician knows that learning an instrument is a labour of love. The hours of repetitive, frustrating, mediocre practice are infrequently rewarded by moments of getting it right. I imagine […]
Recently I had the chance to chat with Alan Blake of WealthKode. We had an interesting discussion about how you can apply the Flywheel concept to investing and life. Check […]
I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Alan Blakey of Wealthkode.com. We had a great chat about Jim Collins’ Flywheel Effect and how this might relate to investment […]
We’ve had our rowing machine for a couple of years now and I can’t say I’ve been a fan. Ironically, when I was younger I was a coxen for a […]
The year is passing quickly and I am already halfway through the second stage of this year’s training plan. Unfortunately, over the last two weeks I have had a succession […]
I don’t know what it’s been like in your company since the Covid-19 pandemic started but in ours we’ve been busier than we’ve ever been. On top of this we’ve […]
On the first day of the New Year I like to think about what the coming year might look like. Generally, late in the year I reflect on how far […]
Have you ever made ambitious New Year’s Resolutions only to find that three months in they have fallen by the wayside for whatever reason? Part of the reason that we […]
I am at Taekwondo training. My instructor has two hand mitts held up in front of me. We are practicing sparring and I have no idea what to do. My […]
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