Change = Scary

Great post by Seth Godin about the fear of changing the Status Quo. His case: ‘the Verizon guy who turned down the iPhone‘. He could have used the example of ‘the Decca guy who turned down The Beatles‘ (“We don’t like their sound, and ‘guitar music’ is on the way out”), but the message is clear. As Seth Godin says:

“The spreadsheets and the marketing team and the CFO and the lawyers have no trouble at all defending the status quo, because, it’s their status quo. They created it and they like it that way.”

Ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling gets 24 years in prison

Skilling stood stoically, his hands clasped before him, as presiding Judge Sim Lake handed down his sentence. His wife Rebecca, however, sobbed quietly in her seat as victims of Enron’s collapse watched the proceedings stone-faced.

Tragic, but well-deserved. Read the whole story over at CNN.