January 2006, 5 pages
Interview by: Sarah Powell
Dick Grote is Chairman and CEO of Grote Consulting Corporation in Dallas, Texas and the developer of the GroteApproach web-based performance management system.
For more than 20 years he was adjunct professor of management at the University of Dallas Graduate School and for five years he was a commentator on life in the workplace for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition programme. Mr Grote was awarded a medal for his work in creating the National Security Agency's performance management system.
Dick Grote is the author of numerous articles and essays and is a regular speaker at human resource and general management conferences. His books
Discipline Without Punishment and
The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book have recently been translated into Chinese and Arabic. His most recent book is
Forced Ranking – Making Performance Management Work.
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