{"id":234,"date":"2007-05-27T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/27\/clash_of_purpos\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T17:49:43","slug":"clash_of_purpos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Clash of purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Therese
\nRein<\/a> has decided to sell
\nthe Australian arm<\/a> of Ingeus
\n<\/a> – the business she has built
\nup<\/a> from herself
\nand a part time assistant to a multi-million dollar company employing over 1400
\npeople over the past twenty years <\/p>\n

I hesitate to mention that Rein is married to Australian opposition leader Kevin
\nRudd<\/a> because if you google "Therese Rein Ingeus", you will scroll
\na long way before finding a link that does not mention this fact. This despite
\nthe observation that Rein is a successful business person in her own right. <\/p>\n

It’s hard to find details about Rein on the internet because there is so much
\ncomment on her latest decision and the
\nevents leading up to it.<\/a><\/p>\n

My angle in this story is the clash of purposes rather than the conflict of
\ninterests. Before making her decision, Rein passionately spoke of how her work
\nwas much more than a business but was her life
\nsupport<\/a>. She passionately believes in what she does – helping disadvantaged
\npeople find work – and no-one seems to suggest that she doesn’t do it well.<\/p>\n

But what happens when two people are tied together and their purposes clash?
\nI am often asked this question in terms of leadership teams. What happens when
\nthe members of the team have different purposes (this is often expressed as
\n‘agendas’)?<\/p>\n

This is a difficult question. I don’t have an easy answer because there is
\nno easy answer. However, somewhere, I believe the answer lies in the higher
\npurpose that ties the people together. In the case of Rudd and Rein, him becoming
\nPrime Minister does not directly affect her business. But her remaining in
\nher (at least Australian) business does affect Rudd’s ability to do his job
\nif he becomes PM. What is the higher purpose? Only the people involved can
\nanswer that. In politics, it is often the politician who wins out and the politician
\nis usually a man. I wonder how it would have been if it was a woman running
\nfor PM and her husband was running a successful business?<\/p>\n

Regardless, it is the difficult task of those involved to find their higher
\npurpose. In many cases, this leads to each individual finding their deeper
\npurpose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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