What happens if you are stuck in line waiting for a toaster when it’s time to start boiling your egg? Your conflict is seemingly irreconcilable, but it really isn’t. If you were managing the restaurant, you could turn your personnel into specialists by hiring one egg-cooker, one toast-maker, one coffee-pourer, and one person to supervise the operation. But that, of course, creates an immense amount of overhead, probably making it too expensive to consider.

