To the career minded student, few concepts are as useful, at all levels of the corporate pyramid, as the anthropological concept of culture. Understand the inner assumptions and unvoiced axioms of the people you work with - glimpse the world as their culture teaches them to picture it - and you will be able to relate across "class" lines and across ethnic boundaries as if you had a natural gift for bridging communications gaps.

Unlike any other academic field, anthropology provides the framework through which an individual becomes a trained observer of people. Trained observation in turn allows making precise predictions as to what people will do in certain situations, dictated by their cultural background.

In the global marketplace of today's world, anthropologists have a keen advantage to bring to the corporate climate.