"The company is not a family: It’s a team. In a family, when someone isn’t pulling his or her weight, they’re not out of the family. But in a high-performance team, everyone has to pull their weight if they expect to stay on the team. Everything is under the microscope. Everything is subject to review. And that means people get developed. In that environment you can’t not develop. You can’t just sit there or you will atrophy and fail."

Robert W. Lane, President and CEO of John Deere as quoted on Deere.com (April 2006)