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When it comes to stakeholder engagement, understanding reciprocity is critical to navigating the stakeholder network. Why does this matter? Because comms is the part of the system most exposed to relational imbalance, and the part most punished when that imbalance accumulates. Comms carries the relational risk of the whole organisation, but often without the instrumentation to see it. In any stakeholder network, every exchange creates movement and the need for balance. Because every movement [...]
Tauutuutu is one of the most interesting words in the topology of relational fields. It describes a pattern of alternating, escalating reciprocity, not just balanced exchange, but the ongoing movement that maintains relational equilibrium. For those of us who act as kaitiaki of relationality, this idea sits at the centre of our work.Breaking it down:Tau – to settle, arrive, be in place, be in balanceUtu – reciprocity, the return that restores equilibriumUtuutu – reduplication signalling [...]