This is an excellent book on time-oriented organization. Roger Schmenner, a thoughtful academic from the field of “operations management” whose writings rarely fail to hit the mark, combines clear prose with profound conceptual understanding, solid theory, historical contextualization and crisply written cases from a wide range of industries. Throughout the book Schmenner applies the concept of “swift, even flow” diligently and consistently. And he never gets lost lost in his storytelling.
This is one of the best books on time-orientation ever written (and one of the best books on Lean), apart from Ernst Weichselbaum's book, which is only available in German, sadly.
This book is published with an academic press and comes at a hefty price, but it's well worth the money.
You can read the book's preface here. A video introduction to the book's topic can be found here.