Me, Tatu and Hugo have taken over one of the dialogue rooms of Team Academy today to think about our thesis which is about Monkey Business. Questions at the moment are: 
  • What is the purpose of Monkey Business?
  • How can we make (our+partners+customers) work to be like the play of children?
  • What are the leading thoughts of Monkey Business?
  • Do we need products or is it all about co-creation with customers?
  • Why people don’t smile when walking on the street?
  • What is the question in this world we want to solve through Monkey Business?
  • Why Monkey Business is called Monkey Business?

I’ll close this post with a story from my friend, Jose-Marie from Mondragon University. It’s about how he learned what saying monkey business means.

Some time ago he was in India with his friend and they were walking through a street market. At some spot they found something really beautiful and interesting, something to bring home. His friend started to negotiate with the seller about the price but he got a quick reply: “I don’t want no monkey business.”  

What does Monkey Business really mean? Maybe we can get an idea from the following video by Queen and Freddie Mercury.