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About PARANOIA
- RPG.net Game Index entry
- "Why It's Fun to Get Shot Six Times" (Gamegrene.com)
- Setting intro for convention games
- Character creation example
- Complete product list
- Animalcast interview with Allen Varney
- "Troubleshooter" (PARANOIA fanfic by ReverendSpencer)
Actual PARANOIA play
- Carrying water across the hall
- Mister Bubbles
- Mister Bubbles (another run)
- Trouble With Cockroaches
- Origins 2006
- Kublacon 2009 (Straight style)
- Story Games for Everybody
- Me and My Shadow Mark 4
- Inhuman Treason
- "Exhausting!"
- "Robot Imana-665-C":
Imana part 1,
Imana part 2,
Imana part 3,
Imana part 4
"Sell me on PARANOIA"
- RPG.net forum 01/2006
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- Paranoia-Live.net 09/2005
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- Mongoose forum 03/2006
"Huh? New PARANOIA rulebooks?"
- A word from The Computer
- "Currently in print?"
- "What changed in the new books?"
- "How does High Programmers play?"
Advice on running PARANOIA
- How to Run (RPG.net Wiki)
- New at GMing...any tips?
- Advice needed
- New to PARANOIA
- I want to GM, but I need some info
- Curious about GMing a game
- First-time PARANOIA GM
- GMing PARANOIA for the first time!
- Handy list of useful links
- RPG.net forum advice
- Running on a moment's notice
- Starting out (EN World forum)
Fan sites
- Paranoia-Live.net
- Omega Complex
- Secret ULTRAVIOLET Diaries
- CPU Central
- "Mutant Maker" character generator (screen)
- Another character generator (.PDF)
- Mission blender
- "Mr. Bubbles" briefing
- ORANGE equipment list
- Handy links for new GMs
- "New player" tournament handout
- Building real laser pistols
- Troubleshooter errata and index
Reviews of the Mongoose Publishing PARANOIA rulebook:
Reviews of Mongoose PARANOIA supplements:
- Traitor's Manual:
Evan Waters, Cedric Chin, JamPaladin, Neil Lennon, Rory Hughes - Crash Priority:
Evan Waters, Cedric Chin, JamPaladin - The Mutant Experience:
Matthew, Neil Lennon - PARANOIA Flashbacks:
Neil Lennon, Matthew - STUFF:
Matthew - WMD:
Seafloorian - Extreme PARANOIA:
David Graffam - Service, Service!:
Matthew, Neil Lennon, Seafloorian - Criminal Histories:
Neil Lennon, Matthew - The Underplex:
Darren MacLennan, Neil Lennon, Petri Wessman - Gamemaster Screen:
Neil Lennon - The Little RED Book:
Neil Lennon - Troubleshooters:
Aratos - Internal Security:
Aratos - High Programmers:
Silent - Practically the entire
PARANOIA support line:
Petri Wessman
25th Anniversary rulebooks:
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Official development blog for the PARANOIA roleplaying game. No description is available at your security clearance. The Computer is your friend.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Hygiene Officer to Kyocera, stat!
SAN DIEGO -- Jay Scovie thought he knew how to deal with the latest mandate from corporate: He swept the clutter from his messy desk into boxes and tossed them in a closet.
But the 5S cop was on to him.
5S is a key concept of the lean manufacturing techniques that have made makers of everything from cars to candy bars more efficient. The S's stand for sort, straighten, shine, standardize and sustain. Lately, 5S has been moving from the plant floor to the cubicle at hundreds of offices around the country, adding desk cleaning to the growing list of demands on employees.
That means companies like Kyocera Corp., Mr. Scovie's employer, are patrolling to make sure that workers don't, for example, put knickknacks on file cabinets. To impress visitors, the company wants everything to be clean and neat. [...]
The North American headquarters of Kyocera, a manufacturer of solar panels, copy machines and ceramic knives, adopted 5S in April at the behest of its Japanese parent.
It wasn't long before Dan Brown, Kyocera's newly appointed 5S inspector, started asking Mr. Scovie, the office's communications manager, about his boxes. "It became a repeated topic of conversation," says Mr. Scovie, who eventually broke down and went through his stuff. He says he found things he had forgotten he had, including instructional videos on how to install solar panels. [...]
Kyocera's version of 5S, which it calls "Perfect 5S," not only calls for organization in the workplace, but aesthetic uniformity. Sweaters can't hang on the backs of chairs, personal items can't be stowed beneath desks and the only decorations allowed on cabinets are official company plaques or certificates.
While that may sound authoritarian, it's not the initiative that's important, it's how managers communicate it, says Gary Hayes, managing partner at Hayes Brunswick & Partners LLC, a leadership advisory firm in Bronxville, N.Y. "If managers clearly explain why they're doing something, I think most people will understand the rationale. But if you say, 'We're doing this because 14 efficiency experts say it increases productivity,' then it becomes kind of Dilbert," he says....
As Dan remarks, "If it seems authoritarian, it's because it was not explained to you correctly. Please turn in your boss so he can be taught how to better explain things to you."
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