Corporate Background
Grote began his work life shortly after graduation from Colgate as an Industrial Engineer. He spent the first five years of his career with General Electric, graduating from GE's Manufacturing Training Program. At GE he spent one of his years as a second shift foreman and had assignments in union relations, hourly employment, and as a layoff coordinator.
He was recruited away from GE by United Airlines in 1967 to be the personnel manager for all of United Airlines' East Coast operations. This assignment also included shutting down United's maintenance base in Washington D.C. and laying off more than 2200 airframe and powerplant mechanics. He then moved to United's corporate headquarters in Chicago where he spent three years in the company's management development department.
In 1972 he was recruited away from United by PepsiCo. He joined Frito-Lay, PepsiCo's most profitable division, in Dallas, Texas as corporate director of training and development. While at Frito-Lay he developed the Discipline Without Punishment performance management system and installed it throughout the company. In 1977, after five years with Frito-Lay, he left the corporate world to become a full-time management consultant.
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