Leading Smart

Laura Butler is much more than just the first female Technical Fellow at Microsoft. She is a smart, thoughtful, and accomplished leader. In this conversation we talk leadership, especially as a woman, and her latest passion: investing in people. More information, a transcript, and a place to provide comments can be found at: https://clwill.com/pod/laura-butler/ Written and Produced: Chris Williams Original Theme written by: John Stephens Connect: Facebook: https://facebook.com/theCLWill Twitter: https://twitter.com/theCLWill LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/theCLWill Email: pod@clwill.com

Conversation with Laura Butler

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Not in Your Head

Laura Butler is much more than just the first female Technical Fellow at Microsoft. She is a smart, thoughtful, and accomplished leader. In this conversation we

We all love to play board games. We each have our favourite genres, themes and mechanisms, and ultimately our favourite games. Over time our favourites change of course, as new games come out and we get a chance to play them. Yet, when we play a board game, we don't usually think about how this game came into being in the first place. Chances are we know the designer of the game. In fact, we might have chosen the game because we like other games by the same designer. Yet, very few will have any inkling of the hard work the designer has put into taking a spark of an idea and turning it into a working game. In the film The Games Designers written and directed by Eric Rayl, Mike Selinker phrases it really well: "Board game design is hard, like, I mean, real hard." Read the full article here: <a href="https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/03/21/the-game-designers-saturday-review/">https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/03/21/the-game-designers-saturday-review/</a>Links<ul><li>The Game Designers: <a href="http://thegamedesignersmovie.com/">http://thegamedesignersmovie.com/</a></li><li>Eric Rayl: <a href="https://twitter.com/zoomoutmedia">https://twitter.com/zoomoutmedia</a></li><li>Mike Selinker: <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeselinker">https://twitter.com/mikeselinker</a></li><li>Design challenges Topic Discussion article: <a href="https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/03/17/design-challenges-topic-discussion">https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/03/17/design-challenges-topic-discussion</a></li><li>Chris Faulkenberry: <a href="https://twitter.com/ccfaulkenberry">https://twitter.com/ccfaulkenberry</a></li><li>Doug Schepers: <a href="https://twitter.com/shepazu">https://twitter.com/shepazu</a></li><li>Kelly North Adams: <a href="https://twitter.com/boardofplaying">https://twitter.com/boardofplaying</a></li><li>Matt Leacock: <a href="https://twitter.com/mattleacock">https://twitter.com/mattleacock</a></li><li>Antoine Bauza: <a href="https://twitter.com/Toinito">https://twitter.com/Toinito</a></li></ul>If you want to support this podcast financially, please check out the links below:<ul><li>Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/tabletopgamesblog">https://www.patreon.com/tabletopgamesblog</a></li><li>Ko-Fi: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/TabletopGamesBlog">https://ko-fi.com/TabletopGamesBlog</a></li><li>PayPal: <a href="https://paypal.me/pools/c/8hovaYouKD">https://paypal.me/pools/c/8hovaYouKD</a></li></ul>Website: <a href="https://tabletopgamesblog.com/">https://tabletopgamesblog.com/</a>