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Tom, I think you're confusing demographic homogeneity with groupthink. They are not interchangeable concepts.Groupthink is a psychological and organisational phenomenon where the desire for consensus, harmony or conformity suppresses critical evaluation and independent judgement. It isn't established simply by pointing out that people share the same gender, race, approximate age or professional background, or by making assumptions about their political or social outlook from their internet footprint.Those characteristics might raise legitimate questions about the breadth of perspectives around a boardroom table, but they don't demonstrate that dissent is discouraged, alternative views are suppressed or decisions are being reached without proper challenge.In fact, I'd argue that the more relevant test is whether directors have genuinely different professional experiences, areas of expertise, independent judgement and a willingness to challenge one another. The current SBTX board has distinct financial, operational, commercial and governance backgrounds, and was brought together in the wake of serious governance failures.I'm perfectly familiar with the concept of groupthink. My point is that you haven't demonstrated it exists at SBTX; you've simply identified demographic similarities and inferred a behavioural outcome from them. That's quite a leap.Perhaps we should judge the board on the quality of its decisions, the degree of challenge it demonstrates and the results it delivers, rather than assume that people who look or think similarly must necessarily think collectively. Lets not forget the last BOD, Martin Hunt, Stuart Ashman, Dr Cathy Prescott, Danielle Bekker, Manprit Singh Randhawa, and Simon Hewitson. That's quite divers, that ended well!

all female, all same age, all professional managers, all white, an internet footprint suggesting a similar liberal world view - i am not sure you understand how GroupThink works. Perhaps read the definitive book on it by uncle Chris Booker

While an all-female board lacks gender diversity, classifying it as "groupthink" would depend on how the directors behave in meetings rather than their gender. Because the current SBTX directors possess distinct financial, operational, and governance backgrounds—and were appointed specifically to restore independent oversight—the board is structurally geared toward critical scrutiny rather than blind conformity.

So there is never any such thing as GroupThink inside the bubble?

Do I come to sharestock to make money? No, I come for entertainment. I enjoyed Andrew's (erroneous) views last year, please invite him again . I hope to be able to attend in person again

We are all infinitely diverse from each other therefore diversity and diversity targets are false prophets.

in terms of diversity its a bit like the board of er um er an AIM listed company where all 5 directors are white middle class males aged 50-67, I'm struggling to think of its name can you assist?

Now that you are part of the AIM establishment...In the old days companies graduated to the MM in an orderly fashion and were replaced by new young companies that would use AIM to growNow there is a rush of good companies to escape and bugger all good small companies joining to replace themThat is different.

I read the RNS yesterday morning before reading this now (wednesday morning) and after looking at the board's make up had exactly the same thought. There is ZERO diversity here, it is female dominated and the fact that they are of an age where they might have one eye on retirement makes it even worse. For other reasons as well I cannot see this bunch driving the company forward.

Companies leaving AIM to go to the main market is a sign of success for the AIM market as these companies have listed on AIM, become larger and outgrown the market and are now being promoted. This is exactly the same as a footy team being promoted from the Championships to the Premier. You know this but you paint it as being bad for AIM which will all know it isn't. Yes AIM is full of shitcos but you should not be trying to twist success into failure.