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How to Turn Around a Business in Trouble

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Trouble is not what kills businesses. Untreated trouble is. Most firms do not die of their problems — they die of the year spent not facing them. A turnaround is a sequence, and it begins with a phone call most owners make twelve months too late. The Problem, Lived “Carlton” has run a manufacturing...

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How to Build a High-Performance Culture in a Small Team

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Culture is not the poster on the wall. It is what predictably happens when you are not watching — and in a small team, it is broadcast by the leader, whether or not anything is ever built. The Problem, Lived “Sherry-Ann” runs an eleven-person property-management company in St. George’s, Grenada, and on paper she has...

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How to Hire and Keep Talent You Can’t Outbid For

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

You will never win a bidding war against the banks, the multinationals and the visa. Stop fighting on the salary line — and start winning on the deal. The Problem, Lived “Omar” runs a fourteen-person IT services firm in Kingston, and by any fair measure he is one of the best developers of young talent...

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How to Escape Founder Dependence: Stop Being the Bottleneck

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

If the business cannot run for two weeks without you, you do not own a business. You own a job with employees — and it owns you back. The Problem, Lived “Andre” runs an electrical contracting firm in Castries — eighteen staff, a respected name, a solid book of commercial clients across St. Lucia. He...

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How to Finance Growth Beyond Bank Debt

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The bank loan is one tool in the financing toolbox. Across the Caribbean, it is treated as the whole toolbox — and growth is being rationed to fit it. The Problem, Lived “Natalie” built her Kingston agro-processing company — sauces and seasonings — from a home kitchen to a small factory over nine years. Then...

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How to Fix Your Cash Flow Before It Kills Your Business

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Profit is an opinion. Cash is a fact. Businesses do not die of unprofitability — they die of running out of cash, and many die profitable. The Problem, Lived It is Thursday afternoon, and “Devon” is doing the arithmetic he does every Thursday afternoon. Payroll runs tomorrow: that number is fixed. The equipment lease is...

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How to Escape Strategic Drift: When Your Business Is Busy but Going Nowhere

July 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

You are working harder than ever. So why does your business look exactly the way it did three years ago? The Problem, Lived It is 5:45 on a Monday morning and you are already answering WhatsApp messages from a supplier, approving a staff schedule, and mentally rehearsing the conversation you need to have with the...

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The 12-Point Caribbean Resilience Playbook: A Synthesis for Entrepreneurs and Boards

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A few days ago, this series opened with a single observation from the Inter-American Development Bank’s 2026 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: that resilience is not immunity. The Caribbean entered 2026 with the strongest external scoreboard in years — sovereign spreads at 209 basis points, inflation largely contained, unemployment near historic lows, currencies appreciating...

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When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 4 of this series, I argued that the critical-minerals window is the most consequential capital-allocation opportunity opening for our region. This week, the series turns to the dynamic that determines whether Caribbean firms can hold and compound the value they capture from such opportunities — or whether they lose it back, painfully and...

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The Productivity Imperative: Why Caribbean Firms Cannot Grow Through Headcount Anymore

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Last week, in the opening article of this series, I argued that the Caribbean has built genuine resilience but is operating with thinning buffers. Several readers wrote to me afterwards with a related question: where, exactly, will Caribbean growth come from in the next decade if the macro tailwinds keep fading? The answer is in...

VENTURE Business Coaching System

How to Turn Around a Business in Trouble

How to Build a High-Performance Culture in a Small Team

How to Escape Founder Dependence: Stop Being the Bottleneck

How to Finance Growth Beyond Bank Debt

How to Fix Your Cash Flow Before It Kills Your Business

How to Escape Strategic Drift: When Your Business Is Busy but Going Nowhere

The 12-Point Caribbean Resilience Playbook: A Synthesis for Entrepreneurs and Boards

When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

The Productivity Imperative: Why Caribbean Firms Cannot Grow Through Headcount Anymore

August 10, 2026CAPITAL: Asset Rich and Cash Poor Is a Choice, Not a Condition

August 10, 2026GOVERNANCE :The Board That Meets Once a Year Is Not a Board

August 9, 2026DEPENDENCE: Key-Person Risk Is a Valuation Discount, Not a Compliment

August 9, 2026VISIBILITY: Why Caribbean Private Companies Are Worth Less Than Their Owners Think — and How to Fix It

August 6, 2026One Page, Every Quarter

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