John Doerr: Ten Ways Not To Lose Your Shirt

I found the video well worth watching, communicated to me much better than the bullet list. Some great points, esp "everything is renegotiable in this environment".<p>Re: <i>(4) Defer unnecessary expenses</i> Alternatives to MS Office have been good enough[1] for a while, but there has been no impetus to switch. Now there is...<p>[1] e.g. I've started using OpenOffice 2.0, and it's great. I'm sure it lacks some features of the latest MS Office suite... but honestly, Word 1.0 pretty much had the features I needed. The video mentions Google Docs, and a co. that uses it for everything.

I wouldn't be happy if my employer wanted to renegotiate my contract, I think this is better advice for your company's contract with other companies.