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    Once Upon a Campus: Lessons for Improving Quality and Productivity in Higher Education

    Once Upon a Campus: Lessons for Improving Quality and Productivity in Higher Education

    by Daniel Seymour


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    DANIEL SEYMOUR is president, Q Systems, Palm Springs, California. He has worked in industry, as a professor, and as a university administrator. Dr. Seymour is the author of 12 books, including On Q: Causing Quality in Higher Education.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1 Direction Setting
    Chapter 2 Begin With The End In Mind
    Chapter 3 Left to Our Own Devices, We Pay Too Much Attention to Things of Little Importance to the Customer
    Chapter 4 Process Design and Management
    Chapter 5 Waste is the Unintended Consequences of Unattended Work Processes
    Chapter 6 The Capacity of a System is Limited by its Bottlenecks
    Chapter 7 An Organization is a Relay Team; the Better the Handoffs, the Better the Results
    Chapter 8 In the Absence of a Search for the Unnecessary, Complexity Out Simplicity
    Chapter 9 Feedback
    Chapter 10 Measurement Without Feedback is Just Data; Feedback without Measurement is Just Opinion
    Chapter 11 Enablers
    Chapter 12 Followers, Not Leaders, Are the Best Judges of Hypocrisy
    Chapter 13 To Create the Future, Challenge the Past
    Chapter 14 Exceptional Solutions to Universal Problems Create Universal Problems

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    The unique and controversial companion volume to Daniel Seymour's On Q places Seymour's ideas and theories within the context of a call to action. In a series of realistic case-study lessons, he reveals how colleges and universities can dramatically improve their performance by drawing upon the concepts found in systems theory, quality management, and studies of organizational behavior. Seymour's goal is to overcome the current reactive mind-set and replace it with a proactive education environment where student success is the main objective. Once Upon a Campus can be put to use as an audit tool, as a guide for readers to identify problem areas in their institutions, and as a planning resource in evaluating and implementing overall performance improvement.

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    A prescription to improve performance in higher education incorporating solutions from fields such as systems theory, quality management, and human resource management. The author, a consultant, says his exercises are meant to be used both as audit tools to help college administrators redirect institutional resources and as planning tools to help them think about improving quality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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    Seymour's volume....makes useful points about the teaching and working lives of professors and instructors.
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