Introduction

Systemic consensus is a decision making process developed by Erich Visotschnig and Siegfried Schrotta - two ex-IBM system analysts from Austria - in 2001.^[website] A key feature is the use of scalar, resistance voting: in contrast to the competition-promoting plurality vote where people can be dragged into outcomes they didn't want, the resistance vote promotes collaboration by selecting the outcome most people can live with.^[details] Systemic consensus can occur online and offline, in short and full formats - all of which contain the same fundamental stages described below.

NB: This form of decision making is probably not what you're used to and requires practice and reprogramming of old habits.