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This made me recall Meilir Page-Jones' book "Practical Project Management" from way back...

"Second, employees who are truly competent and are eager to make a genuine contribution to the department soon resign from a mediocracy, leaving behind them the dross of nonproducers and internecine warriors. I term this effect the Inverse Gresham’s Law: A mediocracy hoards mediocre people and drives good people into general circulation."

http://www.waysys.com/book-excerpts/ppm-ch15.html