The 2022 Mary MacKinnon lecture reminds us of some the history development out hospital specialist diabetes services in United Kingdom. There have been multiple clarion calls across years to collaborate, share information and values break down traditional boundaries pursuit improved patient care outcomes. Along with this, we note roles clinical managerial leadership, followership partnership wo...

Drawing upon evolutionary logic, leadership is reconceptualized in terms of the outcome of strategic interactions among individuals who are following different, yet complementary, decision rules to solve recurrent coordination problems. This article uses the vast psychological literature on leadership as a database to test several evolutionary hypotheses about the origins of leadership and foll...

Abstract Economic theory predicts that organisations achieve higher levels of productivity when tasks are divided among different subsets workers. This prediction is based upon the expectation individuals should perform best they specialise a few tasks. However, in colonies social insects evidence for causal link between division labour and performance equivocal. To address this issue, we perfo...