Why do we tend to think that more is always better?

A long time ago, when I was an English professor, I reported to a department chair who had an odd quirk. Whenever we were to work on a new task or design a new course, she would fall back on the same strategy: “We will take what we are doing now and just do more of it.” Every time she said that she would smile broadly and tilt her head to one side as though she had just invented the formula for instant success. The whole scene was bizarre as were her two underlying assumptions:

* What we were already doing was a-ok and not worth improving; and,

* That quantity was the same as or more important than quality, that size was all that really mattered.

Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe