Salve Corpus Amanti — what does inspire leaders?

Vision is not Leadership and Leadership is not Vision, but they are linked. Leadership is about taking people with you on a journey, and it requires commitment, bravery and belief in the vision.

As I write this today, someone I know is being attacked via the national media in the UK by a minority group within their organisation. As I see it, this leader is taking people with them on a journey to achieve a powerful vision not only for their organisation but, through achieving that vision, for society. That minority are fearful of such a transformative change.

I don’t know this leader that well, however, a) I believe this will simply have them be ever more dedicated to their sense of purpose, and b) it set me to pondering what creates such drive, passion, commitment to such a level of visionary change?

After I messaged with this friend I then picked up Alan Moore’s exquisite book “Do/Design — Why beauty is key to everything” (see here for my post) and opened the page to learn about the term Salva Corpus Amanti.

This opened up themes for me around what inspires leaders, taken from learnings from the profound shifts experienced by astronauts when they first saw the Earth from space.

What the astronaut Edgar Mitchell noted in the quotes above has been referred to…