1. Review the following statement explaining the scenario for this exercise: . Your spaceship has just crash-landed on the moon. You were scheduled to rendervous with a mother ship 200 miles away on the lighted surface of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your ship and destroyed all of the equipment on board, except for the 15 items listed below. Your crew's survival depends on reaching the mother ship, so you must choose the most critical items available for the 200-mile trip. Your task is to rank the 15 items in terms of their importance for survival. Place the number 1 by the most important item, number 2 by the second most important, and so on through number 15, the least important. Your ranking will be compared with that of the experts at NASA to determine the winner. 2. This is an exercise in group decision making. Your group is to employ the method of group consensus in reaching its decision. This means that the prediction for each of the 15 survival items must be agreed upon by each group member before it becomes a part of the group decision. A consensus is difficult to reach. Therefore, not every ranking will meet with everyone's complete approval. Try, as a group, to make each ranking one with which all group members can at least partially agree. Here are some guides to use in reaching consensus: Avold arguing for your own individual judgments. Approach the task on the basis of logic. . Avoid changing your mind only in order to reach an agreement and avoid conflict. Support only solutions with which you are able to agree somewhat, at least. Avoid conflict-reducing techniques such as majority vote, averaging, or trading in reaching your decisions. View differences of opinion as helpful rather than as a hindrance to decision making, 1. Review the following statement explaining the scenario for this exercise: . Your spaceship has just crash-landed on the moon. You were scheduled to rendervous with a mother ship 200 miles away on the lighted surface of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your ship and destroyed all of the equipment on board, except for the 15 items listed below. Your crew's survival depends on reaching the mother ship, so you must choose the most critical items available for the 200-mile trip. Your task is to rank the 15 items in terms of their importance for survival. Place the number 1 by the most important item, number 2 by the second most important, and so on through number 15, the least important. Your ranking will be compared with that of the experts at NASA to determine the winner. 2. This is an exercise in group decision making. Your group is to employ the method of group consensus in reaching its decision. This means that the prediction for each of the 15 survival items must be agreed upon by each group member before it becomes a part of the group decision. A consensus is difficult to reach. Therefore, not every ranking will meet with everyone's complete approval. Try, as a group, to make each ranking one with which all group members can at least partially agree. Here are some guides to use in reaching consensus: Avold arguing for your own individual judgments. Approach the task on the basis of logic. . Avoid changing your mind only in order to reach an agreement and avoid conflict. Support only solutions with which you are able to agree somewhat, at least. Avoid conflict-reducing techniques such as majority vote, averaging, or trading in reaching your decisions. View differences of opinion as helpful rather than as a hindrance to decision making