You HAVE to have a very heavy heavy heavy hand in hiring. Hiring good is by far the best thing you can do, you could hiring the most brilliant coder in the worl

You HAVE to have a very heavy heavy heavy hand in hiring. Hiring good is by far the best thing you can do, you could hiring the most brilliant coder in the world, but if he is a poor communicator and procrastinator, your SOL. For remote work, I look for hiring a personable motivated people, who are good at staying up on communication first, I can teach Tech, I don't want to teach someone to communicate or to stay on task. (This means they keep me informed by choice, not when I ask) Also, as the guy above me said, let them fail and dont over work them. Micro management is something that everyone has issues with, especially if your a new-ish manager, and especially if you are managing a remote team, and if you pile 45-50 hours of work on them in a 50 hour work week, they will become disinterested, and just show up put in the hours and leave without any regards to quality to deadlines.