“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 (@niiamahashong) 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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