Founder, chairman, managing partner, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, Ted Leonsis, reveals his lesser known title of CWO, and how a leaky roof during a Rockets game taught him the limits of scenario planning.
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Founder, chairman, managing partner, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, Ted Leonsis, reveals his lesser known title of CWO, and how a leaky roof during a Rockets game taught him the limits of scenario planning.
Do you feel any pressure?
Oh, I my I'm I'm not CEO, I'm CWO. I'm the chief worrying officer. And so many things can go wrong
other than the big thing. Did you win? Did you lose? One night we have a game against the Houston Rockets.
And
there's a drip of water coming down. And it's raining outside, but why is water dripping down?
We have to stop the game. We're going to have a rain out at a basketball game.
There was a bullet hole.
Someone drove by at some point and shot their gun.
And the bullet went up and came down and put a hole in the roof.
And we all looked at that and went, now there's something we didn't anticipate. We had a lot of scenario planning.
That became an issue. And so like every day you're confronted with something different.