This was mostly done through blatant acts of favoritism when it came to assigning tasks to the engineers in the group. I am sure he prescribed to the philosophy of competition, since I usually had to give him the third degree just to get any information from his lips. There was another person in our group who was sure one of the other engineers was purposely trying to undermine him. Now, on top of this dysfunctional group, let's hover some herculean deadlines. Issues get dropped because no one is willing to give up information.
Incomplete analysis is considered acceptable, now that the deadline is here.
Some problems are ignored because no one wants to take the blame for impacting schedule. A member of our group had just quit recently, and left the initial attitude design for first acquisition unfinished. By sheer chance I discovered the attitude was no longer power safe due to some recent design changes. When I brought this up to my lead, he didn't believe me, and refused to change the database since it would be locked down within a few days. I spent almost 40 hours in the next two days to prepare a presentation to the change board to allow this change.