Not sure I agree with the focus on "value". And I don't like the descriptor "strong" as it misses the main characteristics about networks. For me, networks can (but don't necessarily) provide resilience, adaptability, emergent solutions, swift communications, etc ... & they can add value. My point about "weak links" in a network is that these are somtimes the links that unexpectedly come to the foreground of activity. Further -- to paraphrase Dave Snowden ("you don't know what you know until you need to know it") : the network doesn't know its value for a specific purposes until it activates it. The kind of questions mentioned above indicate to me that Pam Anklam is describing a group, team, club, guild, or organization -- but NOT a network.