The ACT’s MCT qualification is about judgement and independent strategic thinking. Focusing on those qualities, Simon Murray, a leading international businessman, spent some time with MCT students talking about life, business and leadership.
With little formal education Murray has reached the heights of the business world, working at top levels in sectors as varied as banking, energy and telecoms. His determination and can-do attitude is reflected in a thirst for challenges that has seen Murray, who served in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria in the 1960s, trekking through some of the harshest climates this planet has to offer. Perhaps if you survive and prosper in those sorts of conditions, dealing with difficult business problems is not quite as daunting.
