10/14/2026
If your best employee quit Friday, what breaks on Monday?
Who talks to the client who only trusts them? Who knows the vendor, the password, the workaround? If the answer is only them, that is not just a strong employee. That is a risk you are carrying.
Write down everything they do that nobody else can. Five minutes. Then have them teach the top one to someone else this month, while they are happy, not after they give notice.
Share this with an owner who has one person holding it all together.