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. On the side she is an amateur but passionate musician and poet.
It sounds like a quote from someone important. In fact, after I wrote it down I did a quick search because surely someone important already said this. To be frank, […]
Just recently, I started to form a theory around success and specifically improvement focused success. I started to see a recurring theme in past leaders and teams where I saw […]
I guarantee that many organizations right now are just like us. While we have scrambled to stay on track in an ever changing world of Covid-19 related restrictions and disruptions, […]
There’s a day In late summer When the sun presses Down upon my face like a hot stone, And a cool breeze Licks across my skin With the promise Of […]
I went outside In search of solitude and peace of mind. Away from the suffocating interior To the quiet of a sunlit winter breeze. But quiet is as quiet does. […]
How can you forget yourself? In the pages of forgotten poems My true self was hiding. Shuttered behind the must dos and supposed tos Abandoned for the path of adulthood. […]
A friend once expressed their admiration for my ability to be transparent and open on my blog about my ongoing struggles with various forms of improvement both in business and […]
My Taekwondo instructor (a very philosophical person in his own right) said something very interesting recently. He suggested that we do not suddenly achieve a new level of success, such […]
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 […]
The other weekend I joined some of my work teammates as we volunteered to make fireplaces for people who really need their lives improved by fire. Our company has a […]
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