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I have worked with founder-CEOs who saw their roles as solving all the problems. The message was, if anything is ever not going by the book, call me, I'll come look at it myself. Not only does this alienate smart employees, but it grinds the company to a halt once it's at a scale where two or more of these situations can happen concurrently.

The best leaders I've worked with have (implicitly) spun narratives about the problems we're solving, the ways we're approaching them, the kind of people we are, etc. which lead everyone to find within themselves the (mutually agreeable) answers about what to do next.