Networking - good or evil

Tomorrow I'm going to begin helping someone who is looking to professionalise his networking skills. He's a consumate networker, socialiser and someone who naturally connects people he knows.

This is a precious skill that few totally master and where many, in our times of rapid change, information overload and multiple relationships across working and personal lives, ignore at their peril.

There is value in it, if done properly. Where someone can give, there must be take.