Great points. Management decisions should be supported by objective data as much as possible but, management can't always get the data it needs to make those de

Great points. Management decisions should be supported by objective data as much as possible but, management can't always get the data it needs to make those decisions and there will always be some uncertainty/subjectivity that requires extra digging to be resolved (and my favorite managers always dig extra hard for the data). My point is just that many startups don't come from virtual team backgrounds and as such won't even begin to know how to fill in the gaps when there isn't perfect information in managing remote teams. This is particularly exacerbated if there is already a local team with a specific communication culture built that clashes with the way the remote team prefers to communicate and neither party recognizes the incongruity.