What happens when Chris Sabato leaves Willamette and someone else has to run the show?
ASKED BY · Danny Kambel · SPARTANBURG, SC, USA · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:25:59
He acknowledges the succession planning challenge; many of his workflows are personally tailored and not easily transferable, though he tries to build some systems that aren't specific to him. He does not currently document procedures due to time constraints.
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25:44those things that it had been great on the spec sheet and they really did honestly, legitimately think they were going to use it for recording multi-channel audio and then just never did. That's not how the thing shaped up. Let's move to the next question. Danny Campbell is in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Danny used the QR code to ask, Ask what happens when Chris Sabato leaves Willamette and someone else has to run the show?
26:11Ah, succession planning. Have you given any thought to that, Chris? I have. I've thought about it in ways where when I a lot of times I build things that are like I understand. Right. And no one's going to come in and understand them. It's just like there's things that I've built for me and they fit in my particular workflow and no one's going to come in and do that.
26:39And so I've been trying to do some things in a way that like that aren't specific to me. But it is it's hard. Right. Like I am. I'm a one a one man show. And in order to do that, I need to do things that are like specific to me and and specific to like how I can accomplish that. that, right? Like I have workflows that I use that would not translate to sitting in, you know,
27:07a big TV truck, right? Like it is things that if I said, well, this is how I do it, they'd be like, well, that's the wrong way. And I, you know, it's like for you, but for me, it's not because I am so constrained. There's things that I need to do that are not standard. And, you know, I just, that's what I need to do to get them done.
27:29Can you do much documentation of the system as it stands now? Or how much time do you devote to writing things down so that somebody else could step in if you were, God forbid, sick? No, no, because I don't have time for it, right? It's one of those things where it's like, we can either do it or we can document it. We can't do both.
27:49Yeah, I hear you. I hear you loud and clear. And that is, I can't tell you the number of shops I've walked into and you go, well, do Do you have anything that tells me how to do it? No. I'll tell you once. You have to kind of get it and move on from there. All right, let's go to the next question.