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October 2007 I was in a week long seminar in Cyprus. There I heard from one par-ticipant that company name Monkey Business may not be very suitable. Native english

speaking person has a totally different meaning for Mon-key Business than us. It strengthened my vision. We want people to love or hate us, not to get bored. And it all

starts by our name. Monkey Business.

WHERE HAVE WE BEEN?

Name and ideology started to form during Team Academy’s Team Mastery coaching pro-gram. Name Monkey Business popped up in London May 2007 as a

YELLOW.PLAYFUL.UPRIGHT.

Founders of Monkey Business, Ville and Tatu

misunderstanding. But it hit the target, Tatu likes to fool around and make noise like monkey. So definitely Monkey Busi-ness, said Ville. Idea started to develop when we continued from London to Bilbao to coach there for two weeks in Labein. There we defined the core of our business: More Action. More Chaos. More Mistakes. More Learning. When we re-turned to Bilbao in September 2007 we got the idea about business cards shaped like banana and buying domain banana.fi. Guggenheim had done it´s job. Good job. Pe-

riod. When returning to home we ordered business card plan from a small enter-prise in Bilbao which we had visited, MyJok. And Lady My helped us. We had to travel far away to see close.

Monkey seen in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Hugo, one of us.

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Since last Autumn, when we started to talk about Monkey Business people has been ask-ing: “What is this Monkey Business?”. Instead answering (because we were not sure fo the answer) we ask them back: “What could it be?” We want to be special and go to the other direction than oth-ers as Anita Roddick advised people to do. If play is chil-dren’s work should adults work be joyful as play. We

have crystallized our work in three words: yellow, playful and upright. We haven´t de-fined our mission yet. It will get it´s birth through the work with customers. Long lasting things take time to emerge. We have been coaching teams and individuals in Spain, Sweden and Finland. We have done mistakes and we have succeeded. Right now, we have just gotten our busi-ness cards (did you get one al-ready?), stickers and note-books. Even the first version of our website is open. Moreover, we are in Oman SoL Global Forum where we are launching Monkey Busi-ness internationally.

Bridge in Finland.

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

After Oman, we will go back to Jyväskylä Finland, where our homebase, Monkey Nest is located at Team Academy. But after that we want to get abroad again. We want to get international coaching pro-jects. To make a difference. Maybe we want to start an investing bank and find a way to apply Micro-Credit system into a Finnish and European context? But Money is not the mission.We start with people and see where we end up.

HOW DO WE GET THERE?

We need more action. We need more chaos. We need to do more mistakes to learn more. We need friends. We need partners, customers, business god-fathers and you. We need to be humble, brave and stubborn.

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THINKING FORESTfeat. SOLO EXPERIENCE.In Finland August and Septem-ber 2008. 4 days. It’s a journey into yourself. Ask for more from Monkey Business.

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OUR TEAM (at the moment):Task is to draw lines from names to right pictures: Henna, Leena, Hugo, Ville, Tatu and LeTim the Musician.