Respect: 2 Key Distinctions for Unleashing Impactful Collaboration in a Scrum Team

I have always asked myself, what is respect? How do I behave respectfully? And why exactly is that worth striving for in the first place?

In the fall of 2001 I enter a Kempo Karate school in Munich for the first time and right at the beginning I learn how to greet the teacher, the Sensei. The warm-up training begins, the air is stuffy after a short time and the windows are opened. It is very loud, clear announcements are made, but still there is an atmosphere of togetherness. During inten…