I think we're talking at cross purposes; that's not what I meant at all.

我想我们是说到两下里去了，我根本不是那个意思。

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Because of this teams often end up working on cross purposes, resulting in poor quality products that don’t serve the real need of the organization.

因此团队常常无休止地纠缠于纷繁的目标之间无法自拔，最终只能以低质量的、不满足公司真正需求的产品来收场。

youdao

KM: One of the difficulties that might occur here is you get different conclusions from different data, different parts of the organization, where you might run at cross purposes.

一个可能发生的难点是你从不同的数据 不同的组织部门得到不同的结论 你或许发现相反的东西.

youdao

In other words, he's, like, talking at cross purposes to the budget he actually submitted.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

While certainly complementary, the two understandings can also work at cross purposes.

FORBES: DOD Cyberspace Strategy is Too Narrow, Too Negative

Again, these two tendencies are not mutually exclusive, but policy responses to risks to and risks through can sometimes work at cross purposes.

FORBES: DOD Cyberspace Strategy is Too Narrow, Too Negative