Duncan Bridgeman: NZME Managing Editor expresses his concerns with economic growth in the business community

Mood of the boardroom survey, more than 100 of our top business leaders have had their say on the government, its ministers and the economy today.

CEOs ranked the performance of the Cabinet Ministers with ‘1’ being not impressive and ‘5’ - very impressive.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon scored with 3.73 whilst keeping his cabinet focused on delivery and education, Minister Erica Stanford was top of the class for Minister Performance resulting with a score of 4.01.

Simeon Brown, Nicola Willis and Chris Bishop came closely behind Stanford, Brown resulted with a score of 3.89, Willis and Bishop tied on 3.88.

Managing editor for NZME Duncan Bridgeman says that after a year of having a new government, he believes there's some uncertainty around the delivery that Christopher Luxon and his team can pull through when coming down to economic growth with the business community.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now to the juice the mood of the boardroom.
How did our executive fear? This is basically our business
leaders judging our politicians, and we all love a bit
of that, don't we. Erica Stanford came out on top
at number one of the choices here, four point zero
one out of five, Simon Brown, Nichola Willis, and Chris

(00:21):
Bishop up there too. Luxon came in sixth, Winston Peters seventh,
David Seymour He's done in twelve, sandwiched between Andrew Bailey
and Simon Watts. Overall, the sentiment seems to be quite
good from our business leaders for the direction that the
government is taking. And we're going now to Duncan Bridgman,
who is the managing editor of nz enmy Business, for

(00:43):
the mood of the boardroom. Dunkin, good morning, Oh, good morning, Ryan,
thanks for being with me. What is the mood?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, yeah, as you said, they have ranked the politicians
and that's one thing, but they've also given us an
insight into their own thinking around the economy, how they
think we are businesses will fare themselves, and the general
kind of business environment. So there's one hundred and three
Chief executives and a couple of years involved in this,

(01:14):
and we go out to them in August and September
with a range of questions. Now, as you touched on,
we took they gave us feedback on the cabinet the
government's top ranked politicians, and number one was Eric of Stanford,
as you mentioned that, with the score of four point
one out of five. Now that means that a very

(01:37):
impressive is five and not very impressive as well. So
she's obviously scoring well and the executives obviously liked what
she's doing in the education portfolio. Obviously back to basics
reform that's happening there. Christopher Luxen as Prime Minister, came

(01:57):
in at six with three points seven three, so above average,
but he is ranked six in the cabinet, so you
know we're looking at that. And as you mentioned, there's
some others in there, Chris Bishop Nicola Willis Judith Collins,
all scoring well. So it's a pretty positive look at

(02:18):
the at the top cabinet, right.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Interesting the comments surrounding this saying the message seeming to
be time to focus on the future, a positive future
rather than just bashing labor. Kind of put that behind you.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, definitely there was a theme that came through. We've
had a year now of the new government and yes
they've had to what they describe as unwind a lot
of things that were put in place. So the business
community is saying, right, you've done that. Now is time
to take some bold steps to really spurdy the economic

(02:55):
growth that's needed. So I think there's definitely some uncertainty
there around the delivery that Crystopher Lax and his team
can can pull through. They're obviously making good headway on
some things, but but then there's there's other constraints such
as the things like cost blowouts and infrastructure projects. You know,

(03:20):
the other big sort of issues with the Duneden Hospital
and of course the very's infrastructure problems. So yeah, there's
a bit of uncertainly whether whether that delivery will come
through there.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, absolutely, Duncan thank you very much for that. Duncan Bridgeman,
who's the managing editor of NZ in me business, Go
and pick up your copy of the Herald this morning.
It's got the mood of the boardroom. If you are interested,
there's a huge well, it's quite fake. I could probably
make a sound if I dropped it on the desk.
It's in the Herald today.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
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