DICK GROTE
Strategy-Based Performance Management Expert
Strategy-Based Performance Management Expert
DICK GROTE began his work life as an Industrial Engineer. He spent the first five years of his career with General Electric, graduating from GE’s acclaimed Manufacturing Training Program. He was recruited away from GE by United Airlines to be the personnel manager for all of United Airlines’ East Coast operations and subsequently moved to United’s corporate headquarters in Chicago where he spent three years in its management development department.
In 1972 he was recruited away by PepsiCo. He joined Frito-Lay, PepsiCo’s most profitable division, as its corporate director of training and development where he developed the Discipline Without Punishment performance management system. In 1977, he became a full-time management consultant.
CONSULTING
For more than forty years, Grote has been specializing exclusively in the field of performance management. He has created performance management systems for several hundred of the world’s best known and most respected companies and government agencies.
Grote was engaged by Lucas Film to help George Lucas integrate his five companies (including Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light and Magic) into “one company, one culture.” Grote was awarded a medal by the Director of the US National Security Agency for his work in creating a new performance management system for NSA.
WRITING
Dick Grote is the author of the books: Discipline Without Punishment, a management classic, and The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal, which were major book club selections, highly popular book, The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book; the controversial but highly effective subject, Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals.
Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights to Discipline Without Punishment and produced the video series “Respect and Responsibility” with Dick as on-camera host. For five years, Dick Grote was a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and more than two dozen other HR and business magazines. For twenty years he was adjunct professor of management at the University of Dallas graduate school. Grote’s biography appears in Who’s Who in America since 1979.
 Dick Grote has delivered Public Sessions with Octagon. |
