Question

Imagine you work as a consultant, and your daily job involves listening to the constructive criticism of others. As part of your job, you must listen to opposing viewpoints to make important decisions. In this activity, you are a consulting dam engineer. You must make a decision about four different dams; should they be repaired, taken down, or left alone? You will listen to contrasting opinions about what should be done with the dams before you make the final decision. As the consulting dam engineer, what do you decide to do with this dam? Explain your reasoning. By making your decision, did you support the opinions of the mayor and/or the dam safety official? Why or why not? (Site 1)

Answer 1

This process is going to include several daunting challenges.  Among them, it's going to be really tough to . . .

-- listen to opposing viewpoints

-- listen to contrasting opinions

-- consider any of the structural, meteorological, or environmental characteristics of this dam

-- illuminate, clarify, support, or justify my reasoning

-- consider the opinion of the mayor

-- consider the opinion of the dam safety officer  

-- take any rational decision regarding the future of this dam.

The reason for the difficulty behind all of these is the dearth of information given in the question.

These folks are going to have to come up with a whole lot more details and information on the existing structure, its history and its composition.  If that's too much trouble for them, or they don't like it, then I am out of here, and they can go and get themselves another dam consulting engineer.

Answer 2

The lack of information is the major reason behind the delay in process of decision making and construction procedure.

According to the  given, there are several challenges that may occur. However, there are few points which are very difficult to follow, these are:

• Listening to opposing viewpoints.

• Listening to the opinions from other contrasts.

• Consider any of the structural, meteorological, or environmental characteristics of this dam.

•  Illuminate, clarify, support, or justify my reasoning

• Considering the opinion of the mayor

• Considering the opinion of the dam safety officer    

The reason for the difficulty behind all of these is the lack of information given in the question.

There is whole lot more details and information needed to display on the existing structure, its history and its composition.  If that's too much trouble for them, or they don't like it, then they can go and get themselves another dam consulting engineer.

Thus, we can conclude that the lack of information is the major reason behind the delay in process of decision making and construction procedure.

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