Each year, as the fourth quarter begins, planning for the year ahead takes over entire organisations. Teams spend weeks producing documents they know will be outdated within months. Today’s “never normal” environment moves even faster, exposing the limits of both traditional plans and classic scenario work. The real task now is to build a planning discipline that accepts uncertainty.
We are proud to present our Borderless Top Ten List: Things Businesses Must Do In 2026. It is our holiday and New Year’s gift to you. May you experience thoughtful and deliberate business clarity and action in the New Year. And, yes, of course, joy, peace, health and happiness too. We are a human-centric business after all.
Women leaders today aren’t abandoning their drive. Rather, they’re abandoning the outdated idea that ambition can only look like scaling the corporate ladder, rung by rung, inside systems that have historically sidelined them, undervalued them, or burned them out. If anything, the ambition is still there, it just looks different.
Many careers drift before they change, and the hardest part is often knowing where to begin. In conversation with executive turned consultant Jill Allemang, we explore a practical, human way to renew a career without drama. Jill breaks the journey into three phases, decide whether you truly need a change, learn how to change, and build the stamina to stay with it.
What has become evident in our recent conversations is the growing impatience of Boards. They expect leadership teams to deliver the numbers but also expect them to equip their organisation for the future. They want clear decisions and action, not avoidance. They want measured risk-taking, not inertia. In a never-normal operating environment, with shifting consumer behaviour and constant cost pressure, delay carries its own risk.
