An old saying advises not to mix business and pleasure. There are two other things not to mix: Networking and community service.
Now, you may ask: Isn’t it partly to make business contacts that we join a service club or get on a charity’s board of directors? Well, yes, partly. But the real reason to join such an organization is to serve the community.
You can always spot the person in a service group who really is there to network. He or she is the one aggressively handing out business cards on any pretext, too eagerly volunteering for the high-profile projects and
