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in 2012, the retail industry will still grow at a rate faster than many other industries. This year, retail industry sales will rise 3.4 percent to $2.53 trillion*, according to the National Retail Federation – slightly lower than the pace of 2011, in which sales grew 4.7 percent. Many economists estimate that real U.S. GDP will rise approximately 2.1 to 2.4 percent. Over the last 18 months, retailers have been on the forefront of the economic recovery – creating jobs, encouraging consumer spending

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became real. The burning years of Reconstruction are ones that textbook writers, politicians, and some historians would rather pretend didn’t happen. Many good and hard-working teachers are themselves never taught about Reconstruction, so the great national forgetting of Reconstruction gets perpetuated again when those teachers enter the classroom. This is what you must know: Although the Union Army won the combat phase of the Civil War, the war didn’t end in 1865. Rather, the war continued until white

I. Executive Summary Solid Group Incorporated has been in the retail industry for more than 50 years. Among Solid Group’s biggest projects to date is the introduction of My|Phone, the very first dual active SIM mobile phone. My|Phone is the first and leading Filipino mobile phone manufacturer in the Philippines and developing better phones at much affordable prices. A proposal for the Global Marketing plan for My|Phone has been made. In the most recent statistics available from the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT

PROF. DR. OLAF PASSENHEIM CHANGE MANAGEMENT Prof. Dr. Olaf Passenheim Change Management Change Management © 2010 Prof. Dr. Olaf Passenheim & Ventus Publishing ApS ISBN 978-87-7681-705-3 To Till Jakob and Jan Malte Contents 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3. 3.1 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 4. 4.1 Change Management Introduction Reasons for Change Origins of Change Management Concepts of Change Management Lewin´s Change Theory Chin & Benne´s “Effecting Changes in Human System”

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