Dick Grote Biography

He specializes in leadership performance management and building organizational excellence.
Trained as an industrial engineer he joined General Electric after college and graduated from GE's acclaimed Manufacturing Management Training Program. Dick spent a total of fifteen years with General Electric United Air Lines and PepsiCo the last five as Frito Lay's corporate director of training and develop-ment. There he invented the innovative Discipline Without Punishment performance management system the unique approach that solves people problems with dignity and grace. On August 1 1977 he left Frito Lay to become a corporate consultant.
He created Performance Systems Corporation and built it to a multi-million dollar firm employing over a dozen consultants. Ten years to the day that he started Performance Systems (July 31 1987) he sold the firm.
For the next two and a half years he traveled extensively lived on a houseboat in Kashmir earned a Master's degree in Renaissance Art from SMU and took groups of young junior high and high school musicians on concert tours of Moscow St. Petersburg Riga Latvia and Prague.

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