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06/12/2011

New National Anthem for Northern Ireland

I would like to propose a new National Anthem for Northern Ireland. After the incredible success of Ireland's Call written by Phil Coulter. Ireland's Call has not only been used extensively by Ireland's Rugby men but also by Hockey, Cricket, Rugby League and A1 GP teams.

My choice of a general song for a National Anthem of Northern Ireland will raise a few eyebrows:

'So come on Northern Ireland -Come on!'

'there is a whole lotta work to be done!'

'you can make it in the end -with a little bit of help from your friends'

'So come on Northern Ireland -Come On!'

Repeat to fade

A big shout out must go to the 'IDB' for composing such a masterpiece and of course to the girl with the incredible natural breasts featured in the advertisement. If she is still about -perhaps we could get a wee cup of Punjana sometime soon ;-)

Philip Wilson Leader of Men

if you are in need of some direction why not 'follow me' twitter.com/internetsense

if on the other hand you have an aversion to beautiful natural breasts perhaps it would be better if you 'unfollowed me'

12 Jun 2011 23:06:06 | Advertising, belfast, blogging, blogs, Communication, Current Affairs, emotional, Entrepreneurship, facebook, Humour

03/28/2011

Managers of One

About January last year I received a phone call from a student looking a 'work placement' with MatchMedia Ireland Ltd. This particular person I had worked with before, and those who are familiar with both myself and MatchMedia will know the gent to whom this applies. At the end of his 'placement' time I was asked to recommend him -or not as the case may be. I sat with a blank sheet of paper not really knowing what to say or indeed write (those who know me know this is an extremely unusual event). Eventually I simply quoted the business book that I had been reading and a passage entitled 'Managers of One'

Managers of one are people who come up with their own goals and execute them. They don’t need heavy dissection. They don’t need daily check-ins. They do what a manager would do – set the tone, assign items, determine what needs to get done, etc – but they do it by themselves and for themselves.

These people free you from oversight. They set their own direction. When you leave them alone, they surprise you with how much they’ve gotten done. They don’t need a lot of hand-holding or supervision.

How can you spot these people? Look at their backgrounds. They have set the tone for how they’ve worked at other jobs. They’ve run something on their own or launched some kind of project.

You want someone who’s capable of building something from scratch and seeing it through. Finding these people frees the rest of your team to work more and manage less.

28 Mar 2011 18:32:11 | blogging, blogs, Books, Communication, Entrepreneurship, InternetSense.tv, linkedin, NI Innovation, Testimonial, Testimonials

05/24/2010

Being a 'Starter' and 'Getting Started' (Part 2)

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24 May 2010 20:36:42 | blogging, blogs, Books, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Events I am Attending, Events I am Speaking at, Innovation, InternetSense, InternetSense.tv, linkedin, MatchMedia, My Presentations, NI, NI Innovation, NI Tech Related Events, Philip Wilson, Starter, Try Something New?, twitter

05/08/2010

Being a 'Starter' and 'Getting Started' (Part 1)

Today I am very proud to say I gave a presentation at an 'Un Conference' called Bizcamp in the rather lovely I2 Cido Business & Innovation Centre in Craigavon. The subject of my talk was 'Entrepreneurship' a pretty taboo subject here in Northern Ireland.An Un Conference is a good place to -'try stuff'