Success for the New Global Manager

Many skills and knowledges are necessary for the global managements. The Creative Center for Leadership told many skills and techniques from their researches. The global manager has to deal with different cultures, attitudes, work styles and of course, languages and timezones.
As fas as I see my experiences, it's easy to know the differences. However, it's hard to understand and accept the differences. It's necessary to communicate a lot with many methods such as oversea travel, telephone, video conference, email, chat system and sending small gifts sometimes.
I think the global management would become much more necessary and important by this global crisis, because the global company will have to throw away or give up their old business processes and the company will built the new effective processes in the world. In addition, workers will have to accept the new process in order not to lose jobs completely.