[nkohari]

It will also create a company that can't grow past the point where you are the lynchpin. Good leaders find people that will put them out of a job, not lackeys to do whatever they say. If you're happy where you are, then I congratulate you on your success, but when was the last time you took a vacation?

[throwaway95837]

Actually the business mostly runs itself and I usually spend only about 2 hours a week on it. The business has a healthy profit margin so I can afford to over hire and build in redundancies so that even if one person is out sick for a few days, the other person picks up the slack without me having to do anything. Unlike many other companies who overwork their employees, I try to make sure that every employee can easily finish everything by 5pm. Otherwise things build up, problems arise, things don't get done, and I'd have to step in, which I don't want to do.