Moreover, emphases on speed speed to market, response time and so forth, are the subject of much current attention. Contributions of many disciplines in the twentieth century suggest novel ways of understanding time that can inform management scholarship and practice. The way time is experienced depends on the observer and on the context in which it is experienced. There are many useful distinctions concerning time. For example, biologists differentiate molecular time, organismic time, ecological time, and evolutionary time.
Music includes largo, adagio, allegro, presto, and other tempos.
Communication, rhetoric and theology distinguish chronos and kairos. The machine shop employees Donald Roy studied punctuated their days with banana time and pick up time. Some of the distinctions above make evident that there are crucial dimensions of time that have to do more with the quality of its experience than its quantitative measurement. Next time, the things to see by ear unheard, unscrutinized by eye. Charles Dickens wrote of the best of times and the worst of times.