Sunil Pai's “senior engineer death spiral” describes what happens when engineers start managing perception instead of reporting reality. The deeper problem may not be individual pride or fear, but organizations that make uncomfortable information too expensive.
Andi Roberts wrote up Alex Pentland's research on why some teams outperform others. The research is good; the practical advice mostly assumes a watercooler you may not have. Some additions from the trenches: what Brooks actually said, two cheap levers for building the idea flow, and when you want the opposite.
Christian Ekrem's 'The Tacit Dimension' carries Polanyi's 'we can know more than we can tell' into software engineering. He's right that experience works that way. Knowledge doesn't, and the essay never separates the two.