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By Mike Mahony

When you decide that it’s time to hire someone new, whether a virtual assistant or an employee, you make a list of the skills and abilities that this person needs to have.

But, how often do you actually take a look at the personality traits that this person will need?

It’s a lot less common than you think! Hiring someone who lacks the traits that are important to you can lead to added work for yourself and higher stress — the exact things you were trying to avoid.

No thank-you!

So here it is! A list of some of the most essential traits for your virtual assistant to have (so that you don’t pull your hair out)

Reliability

How can your business move forward if you’re leaving essential business functions up to someone who isn’t reliable? Tasks need to be completed, and you need to be able to rely on your new hire to get things done in the time expected. If you can’t…why bother?

Integrity

This seems pretty straightforward…But you’d be surprised to find out how many people don’t take this into consideration when hiring a virtual assistant. Finding someone with integrity is vital because, especially in a virtual relationship, honesty and strong ethics will bring success while deceit will not.
Integrity also becomes vital when you’re dealing with intellectual property. Many businesses out there hiring virtual employees are content creators, and no one wants to deal with having their content stolen.

Friendliness

This trait is especially important when you’re hiring a virtual assistant that is going to be working directly with your customers or clients. Someone who is friendly and confident will help nurture the relationship that your clients have with you. Hiring someone who stays positive and upbeat even in tough or stressful situations is a massive benefit to any business. Plus, no one wants to work with anyone …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

When you decide that it’s time to hire someone new, whether a virtual assistant or an employee, you make a list of the skills and abilities that this person needs to have.

But, how often do you actually take a look at the personality traits that this person will need?

It’s a lot less common than you think! Hiring someone who lacks the traits that are important to you can lead to added work for yourself and higher stress — the exact things you were trying to avoid.

No thank-you!

So here it is! A list of some of the most essential traits for your virtual assistant to have (so that you don’t pull your hair out)

Reliability

How can your business move forward if you’re leaving essential business functions up to someone who isn’t reliable? Tasks need to be completed, and you need to be able to rely on your new hire to get things done in the time expected. If you can’t…why bother?

Integrity

This seems pretty straightforward…But you’d be surprised to find out how many people don’t take this into consideration when hiring a virtual assistant. Finding someone with integrity is vital because, especially in a virtual relationship, honesty and strong ethics will bring success while deceit will not.
Integrity also becomes vital when you’re dealing with intellectual property. Many businesses out there hiring virtual employees are content creators, and no one wants to deal with having their content stolen.

Friendliness

This trait is especially important when you’re hiring a virtual assistant that is going to be working directly with your customers or clients. Someone who is friendly and confident will help nurture the relationship that your clients have with you. Hiring someone who stays positive and upbeat even in tough or stressful situations is a massive benefit to any business. Plus, no one wants to work with anyone …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

When you decide that it’s time to hire someone new, whether a virtual assistant or an employee, you make a list of the skills and abilities that this person needs to have.

But, how often do you actually take a look at the personality traits that this person will need?

It’s a lot less common than you think! Hiring someone who lacks the traits that are important to you can lead to added work for yourself and higher stress — the exact things you were trying to avoid.

No thank-you!

So here it is! A list of some of the most essential traits for your virtual assistant to have (so that you don’t pull your hair out)

Reliability

How can your business move forward if you’re leaving essential business functions up to someone who isn’t reliable? Tasks need to be completed, and you need to be able to rely on your new hire to get things done in the time expected. If you can’t…why bother?

Integrity

This seems pretty straightforward…But you’d be surprised to find out how many people don’t take this into consideration when hiring a virtual assistant. Finding someone with integrity is vital because, especially in a virtual relationship, honesty and strong ethics will bring success while deceit will not.
Integrity also becomes vital when you’re dealing with intellectual property. Many businesses out there hiring virtual employees are content creators, and no one wants to deal with having their content stolen.

Friendliness

This trait is especially important when you’re hiring a virtual assistant that is going to be working directly with your customers or clients. Someone who is friendly and confident will help nurture the relationship that your clients have with you. Hiring someone who stays positive and upbeat even in tough or stressful situations is a massive benefit to any business. Plus, no one wants to work with anyone …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium

      

By Mike Mahony

One of the biggest privacy concerns today is what is happening with all of our personal data. While many dismiss this issue as unimportant, the problem is becoming larger and larger with each passing day. We are about to propose something not many have proposed before–data should be a form of property.

In recent months, European and Asian public officials and industries have called for data ownership principles to be developed, above and beyond current privacy and data protection laws. They have taken the added step of introducing official policy guidance and legal proposals that offer to accelerate the realization of a property rights structure for digital information. The question is how can ownership of digital information be achieved? How can those rights be transferred and enforced?

The calls for data ownership always emphasize the impact of ownership on the automotive industry and the vast quantities of operational data which smart automobiles and self-driving vehicles will produce. It is curious that this issue is not being considered in consumer-facing statements addressing the data being collected by their vehicles.

To formulate our proposal, we also considered continued advances in scientific research, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing which confirms that information in any digital or electronic medium is, and always has been, physical, tangible matter. Unfortunately, to date, data regulation has attempted to adapt legal constructs for “intangible” intellectual property or to express a series of permissions and constraints tied to specific classifications of data (such as personally identifiable information). These ideas take the onus off the company collecting the data and put it squarely on the shoulders of the data’s owner.

Based on the preceding, we propose that regulation of digital information assets, and clear concepts of ownership, can be built on existing legal constructs that have enabled electronic commercial practices. We propose a …read more

Source:: Medium