Quality Is Better Than Quantity

One of my favorite business platitudes is “quality over quantity”.

The reason is that when it comes to social, business, or the intersection of the two, you need both.
What matters most is:
•The purpose behind the pursuit of either of those things
•What you intend to do if and when you get them
•Whether quantity sacrifices or enhances quality of results or vice versa
For example.
If you want to encourage deeper collaboration in your company, you might look at the business problems that are solved all or in part through collaboration efforts or practices during a given period of time.
So, does more projects touched by collaboration initiatives in some way mean you were successful? Or should you pursue fewer projects but at more depth?

Many people would be tempted to say the latter, because it’s the “quality” that matters.

If you had to make a choice between quality or quantity, that’s probably the right argument to make. But that’s rarely a zero-sum game.
What if you could have more projects and higher quality of outcomes? Having more projects impacted by collaboration programs means more visibility in the organization, which could mean better understanding of the impact of collaboration and result in deeper investments in people, models, or technology to support it.