Networking at the Christmas party
: 'Elliot Perlman, author of Three Dollars and Seven Types of Ambiguity ... said: 'You turn your address book into a resource so that your friends become clients, and that's appalling. It's heading towards a situation where the only conclusion is you are only as good as your commercial value - and your friends are sources of commercial value - so if you can't advance someone else's career you are not worth much and vice versa.'"

This strikes me as a particularly invidious change in the way in which people relate to one another. Although I recognise there are people who do this, the idea makes me feel quite uncomfortable.
It could also be that I couldn't see myself behaving that way towards those I know. Though there are times I realise that I could be better at making those networking connections.

Yet something else to consider and work on!