1.   As the next section shows, the skilful use of mixed messages leads to a range of unintended and counter-productive consequences.

2.   If discussing mixed messages would be embarrassing, then publicly testing for the validity of these explanations would be even more so.

3.   Producing mixed messages, we have seen, requires highly honed skills.

4.   The division managers must find ways to explain the existence of mixed messages to themselves and to their subordinates.

5.   The mixed messages, in turn, produce unintended, counter-productive consequences that create the incompetence.

6.   When individuals communicate mixed messages, they usually do it spontaneously and with no sign that the message is mixed.

7.   Public speakers, however, often send mixed messages.

8.   Among its membership, the PGA Tour would be hard-pressed to present a greater bag of mixed messages than Woody Austin.

9.   And administrators denounce it on the not unreasonable ground that encouraging kids to throw objects at each other sends something of a mixed message.

10.   And as more barriers break down, sometimes the media sends a mixed message.