Synopses & Reviews
Whole Business Thinking addresses the needs of corporate decision makers, executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners who seek to understand and improve their company’s financial performance, and for business students. WBT introduces powerful concepts to help businesspeople understand the past, identify and analyze alternatives, plan the future, execute their plans, and evaluate performance.WBT demystifies complex financial concepts by explaining them in plain, easy-to-understand language. Readers will learn how to link past financial performance to future financial goals; how to connect decisions and actions, called strategies (performance indicators), to their financial consequences; and how to link the language of finance with the language of operations. WBT provides insight to help management analyze the details, synthesize the whole, make better business decisions, and manage more efficiently and effectively. In this profoundly important book, Robert Block has taken the focus of management to an entirely new level.
About the Author
Robert S. Block (Bob) is a serial entrepreneur with a long and successful career in the fields of: management, computer software, communications, coach airlines, entertainment, international trade, commercial and pay television, and cellphone operating companies. He has contributed significantly to the creation and development of communication and entertainment technologies used worldwide.
INVENTOR: Block is the inventor and patent owner of more than 200 U.S. and international patents relating to: enterprise management (ERP) systems, solar energy systems, communication technologies, interoperability of non-compatible radio systems, in-building communications, information labeling, signal control, terrestrial and satellite distribution systems, smart utility meters, real-time subscriber billing systems, pay-per-view and parental control, speech education, exercise equipment and novelty items. Block's inventions are licensed to most of the major consumer electronics manufacturers and have influenced entertainment, sports and information and education services worldwide.ENERGY: Block is a founder, partner and inventor of LiTricity, developer of a solar energy system, an investor and board member of USCL, developer a low cost real-time energy management and utility metering system for the residential and small business marketplace and the Chairman of the Advanced Technology Policy Committee of the National Energy Marketers Association.
COMMUNICATIONS: Block is a founder and first Chairman of ShipCom, the only FCC Licensed provider of High Seas voice and data service and Emergency Responders communications, Interoperability Technologies Group (ITG), developers of the Smart Network Platform that solves the radio Interoperability problem, Link Us All, a software company that has developed advanced network cross platform Presence technology, an electronic Power of Attorney and a peer-to-peer system.SOFTWARE DEVELOPER AND