I have a question... I was introduced to a multi-disciplined and multi-cultural environment early in my college studies and on top of it it had a remote compon

I have a question... I was introduced to a multi-disciplined and multi-cultural environment early in my college studies and on top of it it had a remote component in the mid 1990s. I found that the skills in communication and people skills to converse with multiple areas of university study and cultures across many human languages,etc was the skills I needed to remote effectively both as an individual worker and as a manager. Am I missing something or have no one else discover those aspects yet?