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For five years (1992-1997), Grote was a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" program. For over twenty years he was adjunct professor of management at the University of Dallas graduate school. Between 1979 and 1990 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Dallas Opera, the Dallas Theater Center, the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, and the Dallas Chamber Music Society.
In 2007 Grote was named a Rabin Award Nominator by the Dallas Theater League, in which capacity he is responsible for nominating theatrical productions for the League's prestigious Rabin Award. In 2009 he appeared as a supernumerary in The Dallas Opera's production of Rossini's comic opera, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers). In 2012 he studied meditation with the Rev. Takafumi Kawakami, Deputy Head Priest of the Shunkoin Temple in Kyoto, Japan.
A platform master, Grote speaks regularly on leadership and management at professional and management conferences. In 2002, Workforce magazine published a list of the eighty people, events and trends that have shaped human resources in the past century. Grote's work in the evolution of performance appraisal was listed at number 19.
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