Page 157 of the textbooks refers to the building blocks of communication networks - Dyads - which constitutes the relationship between two people in the network. The reason for this being the fundamental unit is obvious - one person without any links to others cannot be a part of a network, and any network can be considered to be a collection of two-person dyads.
I find that some examples of dyads at my workplace that spans across teams is actually stronger than a relationship within either team. That is, two people who belong to different teams actually have a closer relationship to each other than they have to their own team. The reason for this is sometimes personal (two people in different teams are buddies from college) or professional (the two people have a similar work in different teams).
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Your example of two people belonging to different teams highlights the importance of those informal links in organizations. I've found that many ideas that have been translated into programs or similar activities began as casual conversations between two or three individuals who often weren't part of the same group. In addition, when job hunting, those weak links (people we don't interact with that often) usually provide more help than strong links (the people we interact with every day). Especially in a large bureaucracy such as SJSU, dyadic relationships are essential for getting anything accomplished.
The dyad is not only the minimal network component, but it also seems to be a very natural connection. There is something obviously and inherently unique about one on one communication, but unique nonetheless. In my job a dyad is also very common in the sense that two people at least are required to be in the store at all times. That means that the opening and closing "crews" will be a dyad for several hours each day. The conversations which occur in dyads can be much more interesting and deep, as people are more willing to disclose to one rather multiple people. That is what I mean by natural. And I think that dyadic considerations are important in analyzing network communicaiton.
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