Blog is moved -> www.banana.fi

I googled myself out and in the first page there was a link to this blog. That's probably thanks to LeTim who still link to this site. Gotta ask him to update the link. Also have to support Ralf who had made the first comment to this blog soon after Oman. Thanks Ralf.

Yes, so the new info about what I am up to can be found at http://www.banana.fi and this blog will hardly be updated anymore. Thanks for everyone, go for the Monkey Business official website to see what me and my friends are upto these days.

Best regards, Ville

New blogs. New sites.

As a result of this silence, and as a result of emerging of Monkey Business, this blog is likely to go for a winter sleep (no matter it's a spring here. We've opened the first version of Monkey Business website at www.banana.fi Please have a look at it. A new blog can be found in here, it's called Monkey Academy, as the Chinese people called us at the SoL Global Forum in Muscat.

Ps. The Banana above is the base for our Business Card, as well as the sticker. We like it a lot. It was designed by our friend Lady My from Bilbao. She's part of the MyJok World, which by the way ain't small. We met her while we where working with Labein in Spain to help the local Team Academy to get started.

First picture for my blog

I realized that there were no pictures on my blog. And I claim to have photography as a hobby, and otherwise too I feel I am a visual guy. So the change is here!

We see doors. For me, door is a symbol for an opportunity. Something new. And also it's something unpredictable. Exciting. Because one can never be sure what's behind doors.

This picture is taken about two years ago during Team Academy's coaching program called CIF. It stands for Creative Intelligence and Flexibility. We were coached by LeTim. It was pioneering program aka. pilot. First and only. There hasn't been CIF 2. So we always remember it with special feelings. There are many stories to share about it.

Are you Creatively Intelligent and Flexible?

What is Team Academy? Team Entrepreneurship? Peter Senge comments.

Check what Peter Senge, one of the founders of the SoL and author of The Fifth Discipline, says about Team Academy and Team Entrepreneurship. He sent this video for the Team Academy's 15th Anniversary seminar: "The Success Story of Team Entrepreneurship." Yes the video can be viewed/downloaded here.

I hope you like it.

Back to Life?

This kind of posts I suppose appear once in a while. People claiming that they'll start blogging again. Well, this is one of those posts. I will give it another try. Last week I attended two seminar here in Jyväskylä region. One was for coaches and the other one for young entrepreneurial minded people called Aivomyrsky. What happened? Come back and see the next posts coming up soon.

Enthusiasm

Enthusiams comes from inside.
From meeting people.
Having the space to think.
Finding something new from yourself.
Something you haven't discovered yet.
Giving space for something new to emerge.
From honest inquiry.
From positivity.
Not only from ourselves but also from others.

Be slow.
Think slowly.
Be slow to draw conclusions.
Give time and space for different opportunities to rise.

Maybe?

Meeting People in Network Events

Networks. Meeting old friends and new people. Voluntary participation. Meetings of people. Feelings. Learning. External Idea-sprinters aka speakers. Helping others to see new perspectives. Ideas. Thoughts.

All these words I can find in my mind map I constructed yesterday in the SoL Conference workshop. I think they represent well what's going on in a good network. We were there talking about role of network in learning and in team learning. It was kind of interesting and inspired me to think. I was introduced to a new term by Humap's Ilkka, instead of ROI (Return of Investment, I suppose) in networks we can talk about ROG (Return of given). I think that what you get is related to what you get. As somebody had put it in a tag in a wall in London close by the Learning House: The love you take equals to the love you make.

Recently I've been coming back a lot to the book by W.Isaacs Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. I just read about a new tool which was called something like Make Strange. The idea was to look and think about people you know actually as they were strange to you. I probably understood it somehow not in the way he meant it, but in a network event like SoL Conference it's easy to implement. There are people who are strange to you, but also those whom you already know. Has anyone got some experiences of using this tool?