George M. Prince was the co-creator with of synectics

Synectics

Synectics is a problem solving methodology that stimulates thought processes of which the subject may be unaware. This method was developed by George M. Prince and William J.J. Gordon, originating in the Arthur D. Little Invention Design Unit in the 1950s. They set up Synectics Inc...

 with William J. J. Gordon

William J. J. Gordon

William J. J. Gordon was an inventor and psychologist. He is recognized as the creator of a problem solving approach called synectics, which he developed while working in the Invention Design Group of Arthur D. Little....

. With Gordon, he also co-founded the consulting form Synectics, Inc., which later became Synecticsworld.

Prince grew up in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

 and Williams College

Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

.

He joined the Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted...

Consulting Company when he heard about the creativity experiments going on there.

George Prince died in 2009 at the age of 91.

Works

Books

• The Practice of Creativity. George M. Prince, 1970, New York: Collier Books, Div. of Macmillion Publishing, Co. Inc.
• Mindspring!George M. Prince, Private printing, Copyright 1980
• Your Life is a Series of Meetings - Get a Good Life George M. Prince with Kathleen Logan-Prince, 2002 1st Books Library, www.1stbooks.com
• Culture and Creativity, George M. Prince, working manuscript, 2003
• Managing the Field, George M. Prince, workshop manual, 1988
• Mind-Free Program - Player/Coach Manual George M. Prince, 1988
• An Experiment to Examine and Reduce Self-Punishment George M. Prince, unpublished manuscript, 1988

Articles

• "How to Be a Better Meeting Chairman," Harvard Business Review, Jan. 1969.
• "Synectics: Twenty-five Years of Research into Creativity and Group Process," American Society for Training and Development,1982.
• "Synectics Group Planning and Problem-Solving Methods in Engineering," John Wiley & Sons,1982.
• "Recognizing Genuine Teamwork," Supervisory Management, April 1989.
• "Creative Meetings Through Power Sharing," Harvard Business Review, July 1, 1972.
• "Mindspring: Suggesting Answers to Why Productivity is Low," Chem Tech, May 1976.
• "Creativity and Learning As Skills, Not Talents," The Philips-Exeter Bulletin,June - July 1980.
• "Creativity, Self and Power," Perspectives in Creativity, edited by Irving A. Taylor & J.W. Getzels, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1975.
• "Training Both Sides of the Brain to Work Together," Training/HRD magazine *"Liberating Creativity and Learning," Chapter in Creative Education: Educating a Nation of Innovators, V.C. Nolan, editor, Synectics Education Intiative, Stoke Mandeville