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Simple Strategies from Game Theory, for Leaders and Managers (Udemy.com)

Practical Leadership Strategies from Game Theory, for successful Conflict Management, Cooperation, and Competition !

Created by: Sivakami S

Last updated December 2025

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What you will learn

  • Learn some useful Concepts and Strategies, from Game Theory
  • Apply these Concepts and Strategies, to situations of Interdependence, Conflict and Competition
  • Learn about many different types of Game Theory situations and "games", and some successful resolution algorithms/strategies
  • Learn to become better Leaders and Managers, by effectively dealing with Conflict, Competition, and Interdependence.

How it compares

Against the other 230 rated Udemy courses in Leadership & Management on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 22% of them
  • Reviews1,114#113 of 231 by number of reviews
  • Length3.2 hourslonger than 69% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 63% of them

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Course Description

As Leaders and Managers, or anyone who interacts with other people, situations of interdependence, conflict, competition, and cooperation are something you deal with everyday. But it is often a challenge to deal with these situations. How do you deal with them ? How do you know for sure, if a certain strategy will work, or not, and under what circumstances ?

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some logical, or even mathematical way to deal with such situations ?

Yes there is ! Game Theory !

Game Theory can help you do just that. It models and analyzes several situations of Interdependence, Cooperation, Competition and Conflict. And, over the decades, this has given rise to powerful lessons, concepts and strategies. Game Theory provides a systematic way for us to model, and analyse, how to navigate throughpersonal and group decisions, in interdependent, collaborative, and competitive situations.

Armed with relevant knowledge of Game Theory Concepts, and its cool Strategies for Competition and Conflict Management, you can learn how to encourage Cooperation and Team Spirit, and effective ways to manage Conflict. Grow your Network of Interdependence and Success, while navigating and managing the minefield of day to day conflicts and competition, successfully !

This Toolkit of strategies from Game Theory will help you upgrade your Leadership Skills and Management Strategies significantly.

You will learn about different types of Game theory scenarios, like Fair Division, The Prisoner’s dilemma, the Ultimatum and Dictator games, the Public Goods Game and the Tragedy of the Commons, as well as slightly more complicated concepts like the Shapley value. And you will learn how to apply these strategies to the day to day situations and problems you face.

Since this is a Beginner to Intermediate level Course on Game Theory strategies, it does not get into complicated mathematical modeling, or probabilities.

Important Disclaimer: This Course has nothing to do with Computer or Video Games ! It is a Course on Game Theory and Decision Theory.
Some Images and Videos courtesy Pixabay, Pexels, Pressfoto, Alpha Stock Images and FreePik, as well as epictop10 at Flickr. Some Music snippets courtesy Bensound.

AI Tools used only for minor edits and in searching for Research material !

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Instructor Details

Sivakami S

Sivakami (pronounced She-vuh-kaa-me) is a Business Leader turned Online Educator, specializing in Leadership Psychology.

She moved from the Corporate World into teaching in 2015.

Since then, she has coached university students, business leaders, and managers around the world. She is a bestselling Udemy instructor, and a Udemy Instructor Partner, a title held by less than 1% of Udemy Business instructors. More than 165,000 students, from 181 countries, have taken her courses.

All her Courses draw on research from Cognitive and Social Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Economics. She turns that research into practical strategies that today's leaders and managers can actually use.

Before teaching, Sivakami spent almost two decades in leadership roles at large multinational companies. She led global teams, drove major initiatives, and helped shape corporate policy, while working toward demanding business goals.
Along the way, she coached and mentored many young leaders and managers, and experienced first hand both the joys and the challenges of leadership.

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Reviews

4.4

1,114 ratings on Udemy

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By Algernon DMello on 8/10/2022

A nice distilled version of the standard Game theory course that gets straight to the point. I see a mix of game theory and psychology (human behavior), expected more of classical game theory.

By Brent Kamenka on 11/21/2021

I learned a wide range of knowledge about game theory without excessive depth. This has opened up my interest to delve deeper. I was particularly interested is Shapley as these will apply to my understanding of ai.

By Supratik Debnath on 10/28/2021

I am able to take away some of the theories and put them to practice. The course enabled me to understand the backend order to the chaotic façade. I would have loved if the the instructor's voice modulation would have been more appropriate to the content / context being delivered. The voice modulation could be made more conversational. It would also be great if the number of quiz questions be increased to a respectable 5-7 per section.

By Keshav S Nair on 3/29/2021

A really good course on Game theory. I wasn't interested in the Mathematical side of Game theory and was only looking for practical ways of looking at the subject. The course gave some very good ways at looking at cooperation and how how we can improve team work!

By Annette Asprion on 2/5/2021

Er war sehr interessant und hat gut die Basics von Game Theory erklärt. Die Videos waren gut gemacht und verständlich und nicht zu lang, so dass man nach eigenem Tempo zwischendurch stoppen konnte. Gut fand ich die Recaps mit Beispielen am Ende!

By Glenn Yago on 5/24/2020

An excellent introductory course to a very fascinating topic: Game Theory. This course has sparkled my interest in the topic and I do hope to learn more. Thank s to this instructor's wealth of knowledge, concise lectures and engaging examples, I am so glad I purchased this course and will likely purchase from from her in the future.

By Pratyush Shukla on 4/18/2020

Brilliant course! The professor explains everything clearly and very slowly. People can decide what speed students want to learn. I would recommend the course to management graduates and aspirants.

By Bhavya Poddar on 4/10/2020

The course is well timed. It does not go into too much Mathematical details, which is a good thing for students like me in the field of management, who are more inclined towards learning real life application of the concept.

By Jimmy Chandler on 1/5/2020

A nice overview of game theory, but a better worded and more detailed understanding of game theory can be obtained by simply reading Wikipedia.

By Francesco Corlazzoli on 11/26/2018

A clear and simple introduction of game theory applied to the business context. A very interesting topic. Maybe some more example could be helpful :) The teacher answers quickly and offers additional resources to clarify the problems.

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