Experience

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  Grote Consulting Corporation

  • President

    • Jan 1990 - Present

    Grote Consulting Corporation concentrates exclusively in the area of performance management. It is one of America's best-known and most respected specialized management consulting firms. Based in Dallas, Texas, Grote Consulting helps sophisticated organizations, large and small, design and i...

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  University of Dallas

  • Adjunct Professor of Management

    • 1977 - 1999

    For over 20 years I taught the Organization Behavior course in UD's MBA program.

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  Performance Systems Corporation

  • Dallas, TX

  • Founder, owner, president

    • Sep 1977 - Aug 1987
    • Dallas, TX

    I founded Performance Systems Corporation, a consulting firm specializing in performance management, after leaving Frito-Lay. PSC's primary focus was helping large industrial organizations implement the Discipline Without Punishment system I developed. DWP replaces traditional punitive "...

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  Frito-Lay

  • Dallas, TX

  • Manager of Training and Development

    • Mar 1972 - Jul 1977
    • Dallas, TX

    I was responsible for all corporate training and development activities. My major accomplishment was transforming Frito-Lay's T&D department into a nationally-recognized model of excellence.

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  United Airlines

  • Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL

  • Management Education Manager

    • Jan 1968 - Mar 1972
    • Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL

    After two years as an HR Business Partner responsible for all United Airlines east coast HR activities, I spent three years at company headquarters in Chicago as a specialist and manager of United's management development activities.

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  General Electric

  • Rome, GA, Oklahoma City, Lynn, MA

  • Manufacturing Specialist

    • 1964 - 1968
    • Rome, GA, Oklahoma City, Lynn, MA

    I graduated from GE's acclaimed Manufacturing Management Training Program and held various jobs as a labor relations specialist and first-line manufacturing supervisor.