Maxwell Presentation: The Next Big Thing

Post by Brady Munger

In attending the Maxwell Project presentation, I learned a great amount from Mr. Goren. There was one that I learned from him that I really remembered after the presentation.  This was his outlook on how to be successful. He explained you always have to be looking for “the next big thing” to be successful in the sport media world. I have heard this advice plenty of times before he had said this, people have always told me if you have the next great idea you will be a millionaire. But when he said it, he supported it with so much and really went behind the words and what they actually meant. He explained how there is more to the next big thing, than just an idea. You have to look at the current trends, and what people are beginning to like and capitalize on it and create the next trend. He said if you can come up with the idea that revolutionizes the culture, and changes the way things are done on a regular basis then you know you have something. He supported this by giving us examples of what he has done, from the in studio field and playing surfaces, to the on screen score board. These are simple and basic ideas to us, but are things that completely revolutionized the way sport media is portrayed and changed the game completely. These are the type of things that he explained of being the “next best thing”. It was amazing to think just how simple ideas such as those, can completely change the culture of the industry. I realized the next big thing, might not be all that big after all. It is just the one thing that will change everything. I really took this piece of advice to heart, knowing that anything, no matter what it is can be the next game changer whether it big or small and can be the one thing to build you career around.

With learning this from Mr. Goren, I really thought about my future career and what I could do. I thought of all the possible small things, not only from a media sense, but to a sense of my true ambition in operations. It’s all about not feeling good enough with the way things are. I took a sense of never being satisfied, and always trying to find better ways to do things. Whether that is in simple things from day to day activities, or large scale things that could change the entire operation of the organization. Every next step and every next discovery is the next big thing. These are the things I will strive for in my career, and the things everyone should realize are the things they should be looking for. The sport industry is an ever changing. There is a never a statement of, we are here and satisfied, it is always what is next and what can we do now. To be looking for the next positive way to change it is how you will be successful in your professional career.