“When you teach your vision, it’s got to be the thing you remember when you wake up in the morning.” — David Couper
Join Niiamah Ashong and David Couper. David is 88 and still working. He ran the Madison Police Department for 21 years, went to seminary in his fifties, and is fifty years into a fight he has not finished.
This one is about leading a system you inherited and refuse to accept as it is.
Three things you leave with:
- Hand decision power to the people fighting you, and watch what happens to your authority
- Trust first, or spend your whole career using force to get compliance
- If nobody can say your vision from memory, you do not have one
Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome to Outlier’s Edge
01:02 – Eighty eight, still causing trouble
02:10 – Why cops should start rich
05:24 – The run that changed everything
12:05 – Going political for once
14:21 – Fifty years, one goal
17:40 – Writing his own obituary
20:10 – Twenty six meetings, one answer
21:16 – Union head joins management
25:54 – Closer to the people served
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