You might bring your purpose to life through your passions, but they are not the purpose itself.
Ford and GE may be focusing their purpose on the potential for technology to transform people's lives, but we must remember that purpose itself is a uniquely human quality.
As a strategist, you're the person who must watch over the organization, guiding its course, making the choices that bring it back to center day after day and year after year even as you choose when the center -- the purpose itself -- should evolve.
Papandreou said his call this week for a referendum, which sparked panic on global financial markets and infuriated European partners, "was never a purpose in itself", and he would be happy if the vote were not held.
The outcome of such a dialogue is difficult to predict, but it cannot be managed unless America clarifies its own purposes to itself.
We celebrate the articulation of freedom, the newborn nation's ability to explain its reasoning and its purposes to itself, to Britain and to the world.
It seemed to be at cross purposes with itself: a themed and formatted event that wanted to be loose and organic, a product that wants to be a process.
The film showed a band at cross purposes with itself, trying to reconcile family and adult responsibilities with the creative and personal conflicts borne of two decades as one of the biggest names in heavy metal.
President Bush will have his victory at any cost, with one eye on his next Churchillian speech and the other on his place in history, leaving the implementation of his war policy to an Administration that works at cross purposes with itself, promising freedom and delivering rubble.
In other words, again, as I said, this bill has been at cross purposes to itself because everything that it seems to want, it has established parameters to get the opposite.
