The net is where it happens.

Woody Allen's Match Point opens on a tennis ball clipping the top of the net — hanging, for a split second, before it drops one way or the other. The whole story turns on that bounce of luck.

Networking is the same game. The right introduction, the lucky bounce, the person you almost didn't meet. The net is where chance gets decided — and a network is just a net with more people on it. Play the point.