[woadwarrior01]

Interesting! I didn't know this phenomenon had a name. I've seen the "dead sea effect" at a well known SV bigtech co as well. And this company has biannual performance review rituals.

[oblio]

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

The blog has a bunch of other good article on related topics.