"The harassment appears to be focused on creating negative consequences for each person with respect to their career," the report said.

While the mechanisms worked effectively, some traders and industry officials said they also created unintended consequences.

Continuing to focus on your strengths, they argue, at a certain point will create negative consequences.

And those decisions would have created consequences of their own as time went on.

See, this is the problem with implementing only partial solutions, they create negative consequences.

Asking cities and states to pay even half the additional cost creates pernicious consequences.

In handling these problems, the executives use highly honed skills yet create consequences they do not intend.

"I happen to believe that not dealing with the problem will create political consequences when the public realizes how serious the problem is," he said.

We must never forget; easy solutions to complex problems create unintended consequences.

They are too simple in design to be worth much and, under the circumstances, taking them would create undesirable consequences.