Common Errors.

Under the pressure of a decisive moment, judgment is degraded by a recognizable set of avoidable errors - processes get corrupted, personalities override logic, perceptions acquire distorting filters, and emotions swing to sharper highs and lows.

The errors are common and predictable, which is the good news: acute awareness of what they look like and where they lurk is often enough to avert them. Naming the failure mode is the first step to designing it out.