Dick Grote

 Grote is the author of the books, Discipline Without Punishment and The Complete Guide to Performance Appraisal. Both books were major book club selections and have been translated into Chinese, Arabic, and over a dozen other languages.

Discipline Without Punishment has become a management classic and was issued in a revised and updated second edition in 2006. Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights to Discipline Without Punishment and produced the video series Respect and Responsibility with Grote as on-camera host.

His highly popular book on performance appraisal, The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, was published by the American Management Association in 2002. His last book, Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work,advocating the controversial human resources procedure, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in 2005. His most recent book, How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, was also published by the Harvard Business School Press in July 2011.

Grote's articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and many other business and professional publications.