Brainstorming Constraints

Throughout my classes in the Paul college we have focus heavily on innovation and idea generating. With my major focus being in Management, this has lead me to some very interesting entrepreneurship classes which heavily really on solving issues in today's world. Innovation and problem solving are the keys to not only successful business but lasting business's. A key part to innovation used to be brainstorming. Brainstorming definition from Websters dictionary is when people "produce an idea or way of solving a problem by holding a spontaneous group discussion." This may have seemed to be very effective years ago but in today's business world  we have a much more diverse workplace and this is in the form of gender, race, ethnicity, and even extrovert and introverts. This is because managers know that diversity of all kinds leads to a company that is well rounded. When it comes to brainstorming introverts have a hard time contributing. From personal experiences of being an introvert, I need time to fully think about what I am going to say, but with to much time I always shut down most ideas I have in my head before ever saying them out loud. This is generally true for most other introverts as well. For this reason brainstorming is something that had become horribly ineffective and stereo-typically gets dominated by the extroverts who with no filter. They may be generating some great ideas but it isolates the introverts. This is why modern day businesses must adapt. Organizations need make it so everyone's voice is getting heard and brainstorming is not the way to do this. The time constraint rushes ideas and people are worried about what others will think about their ideas. This limits people to recommend ideas that are safe and do not innovate in anyway. In order to innovate and be creative its important to have some bad ideas at first but if your to worried about others opinions this will never happen. Also with the diverse workplace peoples opinions might be drastically different and even if there is a good idea other people may shut it down there on the spot. Organizations are better of have their employees take time to sit alone and write down their top 10 ideas and then bringing then all together on a later date.