ABSTRACT
Organizing as a coral reef rather than through military metaphors might lead to mutual benefit in that the cultural organization can better support the creative ecology and at the same time gain internal organizational innovation. Steven Johnson's natural history of innovation holds some clear lessons about how cultural organizations might organize as coral reefs. He identifies the aspects of innovation such as: The Adjacent Possible, Liquid Networks, The Slow Hunch, Serendipity, Error, Exaptation and Platforms. In finding imaginative ways to expand the cross-fertilization with proactive support could enable cultural organizations to simultaneously support and receive support from the creative ecology. Organizations as machines are usually disastrous for working with openness and sensitivity in ever changing environment. The concept of homeostasis refers to self-regulation and the ability to maintain a steady state is achieved through homeostatic processes that relate to and control systems operation on the basis of what is now called negative feedback.
