Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

by Mark C. Taylor,
Psychology Today, November 10, 2014

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of "scientific management" in the United States, proclaimed that "the most important object" in every business was to make it possible for every employee to "do (at his fastest pace and with the maximum efficiency) the highest class of work for which his natural abilities fit him."