ABSTRACT
Uncertainty means conditions under which people cannot find a rule to guide their reactions. They cannot easily assimilate their present condition to some similar condition in the past, and use this as a precedent for making a plan of action. The leader's range of tasks concern the world outside the team, especially that part of it which constitutes the arena in which the team is competing. One of the distinctive characteristics of political competition, is that actions are intended to produce uncertainties and disputes within the opposing teams. This chapter concerns judicial activity and the taking of administrative decisions by leaders within their own teams. It goes beyond the structure of formal political rules and asks how these rules are applied. Decisions are called for in conditions of uncertainty: when no rule can be found to guide action or when there are several possible rules and a choice has to be made between them.
