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'''Stephen G. Haines''' (1945-20121945–2012) was an American [[organizational theorist]], [[management consultant]], author of books on [[ management]] and [[systems thinking]], and an internationally recognized thought leader in [[strategic planning]] and strategic change.<ref name="SGH00">Stephen G. Haines (2000). ''The Manager's Pocket Guide to Systems Thinking''. p.157.</ref>

Stephen Haines earned a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in [[ engineering]] from the [[United States Naval Academy]]. inHe 1968,also anworked [[Doctorfor ofa Education|Ed.D]]doctorate (allin butManagement dissertation) in [[management]] and [[educationalEducational psychologyPsychology]] from [[Temple University]], andbut did not complete the dissertation He received a [[Master of Science in Administration|M.S.A.]] in [[organizationalOrganization developmentDevelopment]] under [[Richard F. Ericson]] and Jerry Harvey at the [[George Washington University]].<ref name="SGH00"/>

As a former [[U.S. Naval]] officer, he flew Navy jets, piloted ships, and served off Vietnam.<ref>[https://bestpracticeinstitute.org/cgi-bin/expert_profile.pl?id=207&cmd=biography Stephen Haines BIOGRAPHY]. Retrieved June 14, 2009.</ref> Beginning inIn the 1970s, Haines worked as an executive and consultant in several positions. He was Executiveexecutive Vicevice Presidentpresident of Imperial Corporation of America,<ref name="SGH00"/> a nationwide financial serviceservices firm that filed for bankruptcy in 1990.<ref>James R. Barth, Susanne Trimbath, Glenn Yago (2004). ''The savings and loan crisis''. Springer, 2004. {{ISBN |1-4020-7871-4}} p.266-276.</ref> and Seniorsenior Vicevice Presidentpresident of [[Freddie Mac]]. FurtherHe healso hadheld executive positions with [[MCI Inc.]], [[Exxon]], [[Sunoco]], and [[Marriott Corporation]]. In the 1980s, he was president of University Associates (UA) Consulting and Training Services. And in 1990 heHe founded the Haines Centre for Strategic Management in 1990, serving as CEO and growing; the firm tonow has a network of offices in over 25 countries. He was very active in the formulation of the Association for Strategic Planning's strategic planning certification program.

In order toTo develop a strategic management systemssystem, Haines (2000) suggested "using the "Systems Thinking Approach" and its five phases-phased (ABCDE) Systems Thinking model that invites the leader to ask and answer five important questions".:<ref>Carrie Regenstein, Barbara I. Dewey (2003). ''Leadership, higher education, and the information age: a new era for information technology and libraries''. Neal-Schuman Publishers. {{ISBN |1-55570-455-7}}. p.13.</ref> These five questions are:<ref name="SGH002">Stephen G. Haines (2000). ''The systems thinking approach to strategic planning and management‎management''. pp.43-44</ref>

:(A) Where do we want to be?

:(B) How will we know when we get there?

:(C) Where are we right now?

:(D) How do we get there from here?, and

:(E) What is changing in the future external environment, that we need to take into account?

* 1995. ''Sustaining high performanceHigh Performance:The theStrategic strategic transformationTransformation to a customerCustomer focusedFocused learningLearning organizationOrganization''. With,with Katie McCoy.

* 1998. ''Manager's pocketPocket guideGuide to strategicStrategic and businessBusiness planningPlanning : theThe systemsSystems thinkingThinking approachApproach''.

* 2000. ''Successful careerCareer and life planningLife Planning: theThe systemsSystems thinkingThinking approachApproach''.

* 2000. ''Systems thinkingThinking approachApproach to strategicStrategic planningPlanning and managementManagement''.

* 2002. ''Successful strategicStrategic humanHuman resourceResource planningPlanning''., Withwith Allan Bandt.

* 2004. ''ABCs of strategic managementStrategic Management: anAn executiveExecutive briefingBriefing and planPlan-to-planPlan dayDay on strategicStrategic managementManagement in the 21st centuryCentury''.

* 2005. ''Enterprise-wide changeWide Change: superiorSuperior resultsResults throughThrough systemsSystems thinkingThinking''., Withwith Gail Aller-Stead, and James McKinlay.

* 2007. ''Pearls of wisdom Wisdom:Facilitation facilitation toolsTools, tipsTips, and techniquesTechniques for groupGroup leadersLeaders, managersManagers and executivesExecutives''.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090816074957/http://www.stephenhaines.com/keynote/pdfs/MSST-01.pdf Keynote presentation on systems thinking] by Stephen Haines, 2005.

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