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Stephen R. Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, died yesterday. In a testament to his impact, his passing was news on CNN, The Washington Post and in many other publications around the world. The comments on these obituaries include two very divergent types. One group says he was a “snake […]

Stephen R. Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , died yesterday. In a testament to his impact, his passing was news on CNN , The Washington Post and in many other publications around the world.

• GM Greg McKeown  is the author of the  New York Times  bestsellers  Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters and  Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less  and the host of the popular podcast What’s Essential. He is the Founder of The Essentialism Academy.  Greg did his graduate work at Stanford. Connect  @GregoryMcKeown .

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Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership”

The 7 habits of highly effective people are as relevant today as 30 years ago

Many years ago when I was in my corporate life, I happened upon the powerful book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and I was very drawn to its simple yet transformative principles and strategies. To me, they just made perfect sense and those rare people whom I found to be great leaders were naturally applying these principles in their lives and work. On the other hand, I saw all around me certain behaviors of colleagues and managers that were in direct opposition to these principles, and it was demoralizing to observe and be a part of.

Later, when I became a marriage and family therapist and career coach, the principles in the book spoke to me in a different, deeper way. And the seven habits remained just as effective whether I applied them to my therapeutic work with individuals and families or in my career and leadership coaching work with executives.

The author of the 7 Habits groundbreaking framework, Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012), has been recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans, and was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant and author. His books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in thirty-eight languages, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named one of the two most influential books of the 20th century by CEO magazine.

I was very intrigued to hear of the new release of the 30th anniversary edition of the book , that offers fresh insights from Sean Covey, Stephen’s son and president of FranklinCovey Education. With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the seven habits has been refreshed for a new generation of leaders.

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To learn more about how these habits are still impacting leaders and organizations today and how we can embrace them in new ways in our ever-evolving times, I was excited to catch up with Stephen M. R. Covey . Covey is cofounder of CoveyLink and the FranklinCovey Speed of Trust Practice . A sought-after keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and collaboration, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust , a paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver.

Here’s what Covey shares:

Kathy Caprino: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People obviously inspired a new wave of thinking about personal and professional growth. What do you believe sets the original 7 habits apart from all of the other content out there now, during a time so full of advice telling us how to hack our thinking and actions?

Stephen M.R. Covey: The 7 Habits are built on enduring and timeless principles that apply everywhere, and in all circumstances.

It takes an inside-out approach, which is the only way to sustain personal, team, and organizational development. You move from dependence to independence to interdependence. Private victories precede public victories. If you want to succeed with others, succeed first with yourself.

My father had a gift for making all of this accessible, practical and actionable to people. He framed and organized the equivalent of an operating system for human effectiveness that is so usable. People have been able to apply these habits, and that application has created such enduring and sustaining power.

Caprino: Is there any one original habit that you feel is even more difficult to master or incorporate in this modern day than it was when this book was originally published? Conversely, are there any that you feel are easier to master today?

Covey: I think they are all difficult! I could argue all seven individually, but I’ll highlight just one, that I think is particularly important today and that is “Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.”

We’re living in a world that has become polarized in almost every way. Habit 5 teaches us why it is so critical that we seek to understand other people first before we try to influence them. Most people do just the opposite. The test of understanding is not when you tell the other person, “Hey, I understand.” It’s when they tell you, “I feel understood.” That is a gift. It doesn’t mean you agree—you may not. It just means you understand them. Once people feel truly understood, they are far more open to being influenced.

I believe that none of the habits have really become easier. But maybe in some ways “Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”—the whole idea of renewal and the need for self-renewal has become more evident. The need to reinvent, and improve, as opposed to just keep sawing with a dull saw is even more clear. It’s still difficult, but there’s greater awareness of the value.

Caprino: Looking back at the last 30 years since the book was first released, are there any habits that you feel have been most impactful for business leaders and are there any great examples or stories for business leaders who have credited the book for their effectiveness?

Covey: I’ll highlight just a couple. The whole idea of “ Habit 4: Think Win-Win ” is a mindset for how to see the world. It flows out of an abundance mentality—the idea that there’s plenty for everyone. Many view the world like a pie—if you win some, there is less for me. It’s limited. The whole idea of an abundance mentality and thinking win-win is that you can grow the pie—we can all win abundantly. There’s more creativity and possibility out there than we might have imagined.

It reminds me of some of the research on a fixed mindset versus a growth mindset. Think Win-Win is a growth mindset; it’s an abundance mindset—there’s enough for everyone. I’ve seen many business leaders truly transform their business and their leadership style with this approach.

They give credit to others, extend trust to others, and empower others, and find that none of this diminishes them. It actually grows the organization, grows the people, and grows the leader. In the long run, if you’re interdependent (and we all are), the only sustainable approach is Win-Win. It only takes one to start, and that one can change how the other is viewing the world.

The other one I would highlight would be “ Habit 1: Be Proactive ,” where we take ownership of our response to everything that happens to us. For example, after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Power had lost power in 23 counties and people thought it would take a huge amount of time to get it back. The entire company was deep into 7 Habits training, it permeated their whole culture. Everyone was empowered, proactive and responsible, they were resourceful and took initiative.

Within twelve days after losing all the power, they were back, a feat USA Today called a “case study in crisis management.” You can’t do that in a reactive culture. So while these habits are about effective people, they apply equally to teams and to entire organizations. In fact, many businesses have built themselves around the 7 Habits .

Caprino: Which do you feel is the most important habit?

Covey: People would ask my dad that all the time, and I’ve heard him at different times say each of the 7 Habits! So how do you pick which one is most important? Maybe a way to think about it is that the most important habit for you is the one you’re having the most difficulty living and practicing.

That way we all have a personal way to look at this—which one is most difficult for each of us? That one is the most important.

Caprino: Are there any habits you have ever imagined adding to the book? Why or why not?

Covey: My dad would answer, “yes and no.” The “no” part is that the entire 7 Habits construct is pretty much all-encompassing. My father always felt like, “I can put almost everything I need to into one of those seven.” So I think, in that sense, they are whole. They are complete as-is.

But my father did later write another book called The 8th Habit . This was less about adding an additional habit as it was about giving a new dimension to the 7 Habits. He described it as this: “Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.”

The 7 Habits help you find your voice. Then your job as a leader is to inspire others to find their voice. That is what leadership is. My father’s definition of leadership is the most beautiful I’ve ever heard: “Leadership is communicating people’s worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.” That’s the 8th Habit. You help others to see it, and they come to find it for themselves. That’s what my father added as a new contribution.

Caprino: For people who have already read the original book one or more times, and who are loyal fans and followers of your father because of it, what do you think is the biggest reason they should pick up a copy of this new edition?

Covey: Those who already love The 7 Habits are the ones who will love this 30th anniversary edition the most. It has superb additional insights, examples and stories, including behind-the-scenes interactions with my father. These come from my brilliant brother, Sean, who apart from my father, has spent more time and has written more about the 7 Habits than any other person.

He wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and The 7 Habits of Happy Kids . He has led the work in education with a whole school transformation process, Leader in Me , where they have taken the 7 Habits into over 5,000 schools in over 50 countries. Sean is a practitioner of the 7 Habits in every context. At the end of each chapter, Sean shares added insights with examples and stories with my dad on his greatest learnings, applications, understandings of the very things taught in that chapter. It’s insightful, it’s profound, it’s fun, it’s engaging. It’s like being taken into the living room with my father and having a dialogue with him.

Caprino: What one of these 7 Habits has been most instrumental in your own life and work?

Covey: While each of the 7 Habits has had a profound impact on me personally, perhaps the habit that has influenced me the most is “ Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind .”  This habit reminds us that each of us can be the creative force in our life, and that the best way to predict our future is to create it.

Einstein taught that “imagination is more important than knowledge.” Similarly, a vision for ourselves and for our lives (along with chosen values to guide us), is more important than memory.

For me, applying Habit 2 has enabled me to identify and focus on what matters most to me: meaning, purpose, and contribution. And finding my voice. I feel I have found my voice around my work on trust, and through my book The Speed of Trust .  For me, increasing trust in the world is my life’s work, and deeply applying Habit 2 has led me to this point.

For more information visit 7 Habits of Highly Effective People .

  To build more strength in your own career and leadership, work with Kathy Caprino in her Career Breakthrough programs and read her new book The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss .

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Author:  Stephen R. Covey  Publisher:  Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, Free Press,  15th Anniversary Edition,  2004 ISBN-13:  978-0-7432-6951-3 and ISBN-10:  0-7432-6951-94 Orders:   https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php

F irst published in 1989, this book has sold over 15 million copies. The reason for its success would seem to because the book ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.

After a positive overview of the seven habits of highly effective people, the book is divided into four parts:

In Part One, Paradigms and Principles, the author discusses personality and character ethics, primary and secondary greatness. He also explains the power of a paradigm in which the seven habits of highly effective people embody many of the fundamental and primary principles of human effectiveness.

Part Two, Private Victory, discusses the first three of the seven habits. Habit 1 is Be proactive , principles of personal vision. This means that self-awareness enables us to stand apart and examine the way we see ourselves, our self-paradigm. Imagination, conscience and independence are other principles of this proactive model. Habit 2 is Begin with the End in Mind . Here principles of personal leadership are explained. Leaders may be very busy people, but in order to be both efficient and truly effective, their goals need to be foremost in their mind. This habit is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. In order to write a personal mission statement, we must begin at the very centre of our circle of influence; that centre is comprised of our most basic paradigms, the lens through which we see the world. Habit 3 is Put First Things First . This is my favourite habit as it provides the principles of personal management. It teaches that the things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. The author provides a description of the time management matrix which divides activities into four types: 1. Urgent and Important; 2. Important and Not Urgent; 3. Urgent and Not Important, and 4. Not Urgent and Not Important, i.e. things which can be considered for delegation.

In Part Three, Public Victory , the author covers the next three habits, focusing on the paradigms of interdependence. Habit 4 is Think Win/Win . Here principles of interpersonal leadership are explained. ‘Win/win’ is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. This principle sets the stage for life in a cooperative, not competitive arena. Habit 5 is entitled Seek First to Understand , Then to be Understood . This habit covers the principles of empathetic communication. It introduces five important responses: listening, evaluating, probing, advising, and interpreting. Habit 6 is Synergize . This leads to the principles of creative cooperation where we communicate synergistically by opening our mind and heart to new possibilities, alternatives, and options.

The final part of the book is entitled Renewal and covers the seventh habit Sharpen the Saw . Here the four dimensions of balanced self-renewal are described, corresponding to the four elements of human nature: physical, spiritual, mental, and social/emotional.

The strengths of this popular book are that it is concise and informative with plenty of examples and realistic stories to demonstrate the philosophy of the seven habits of highly effective people. It also contains tables, pictures and figures which help to illustrate ideas. The message is further underlined as the description of every habit starts with a proverb and ends with suggestions for applications. The book has, however, some weaknesses. Some sections of the text are difficult to understand, especially for ‘English as a Second Language’ readers. Also, surprisingly, the figures and tables are not labelled in the text.

Not withstanding these minor weaknesses, I recommend this book to all faculty members, teachers, leaders, managers, especifically to those strive for effectiveness and efficiency in leadership.

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Vinita Arora for editing this article

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How Stephen Covey's 'The 7 Habits' Guides Leaders in Times of Challenge and Uncertainty

The 30th-anniversary edition of 'the 7 habits of highly effective people' offers new insight to help us deal with our current challenges..

In a time of great uncertainty and rapid change, organizations, teams, and employees are simply trying to survive. The need for effective leadership has never been greater.

While professional titles earn you the responsibility to lead, anyone can be a leader in achieving vital goals, optimizing a career, and redefining professional roles. What proven wisdom can we rely on in such challenging times?  

Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the No. 1 most influential business book of the 20th century, selling more than 40 million copies in 50-plus languages.

In the new 30th anniversary edition of the book, Sean Covey, president of FranklinCovey Education and son of the late Stephen Covey, adds his insights in each chapter on how the book's habits can propel the next generation of leaders toward success.

"The more challenging society's problems become, the more relevant the seven habits are to new generations of leaders. The seven habits are based on timeless principles of effectiveness that are universally accepted," Sean contends. "My father didn't claim to invent these concepts; he forged them into habits people can access and live by. And they work!"

They've been integrated into the everyday thinking of millions of people of all ages and occupations (CEOs and entrepreneurs among them), who have accessed the principles to achieve extraordinary results. Let's revisit the timeless principles of The 7 Habits to help us navigate our current challenges:

Habit 1: Be proactive. 

People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose in accord with their principles and values rather than moods or conditions. They develop their four unique human gifts -- self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and independent will -- and take an inside-out approach to change. They choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind. 

Highly effective people shape their own future by creating a mental vision and purpose for their life, week, day, and any project, large or small. They don't just live day to day without a clear purpose in mind.

Habit 3: Put first things first. 

Highly effective people make decisions with a clear sense of what's most important. They organize and execute around their most important priorities, as may be expressed in their personal, family, and organizational mission statements. They're driven by purpose, not by agendas and forces surrounding them.

Habit 4: Think win-win. 

Highly effective people think in terms of mutual benefit. They foster support and mutual respect. They think interdependently -- "we," not "me" -- and develop win-win agreements. They don't think selfishly (win-lose) or like a martyr (lose-win).

Habit 5: Seek first to understand, and then to be understood. 

Seek first to listen with the intent to understand the thoughts and feelings of others, and then seek to effectively communicate your own thoughts and feelings. Through understanding, highly effective people build deep relationships of trust and love, give helpful feedback, don't withhold feedback, and won't seek first to be understood.

Habit 6: Synergize.

Highly effective people focus on their strengths and celebrate and thrive on the strengths of others, so by respecting and valuing others' differences, the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts. They develop third-alternative solutions to problems with others that are better than what one person would, alone. They don't go for compromise (1 + 1 = 1½) or merely cooperation (1 + 1 = 2) but creative cooperation (1 + 1 = 3 or more).

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw. 

Highly effective people increase their effectiveness by renewing themselves regularly in four areas: body (physical), mind (mental), heart (social/emotional), and spirit (spiritual--service, meaning, and contribution).

For further insight and anecdotes related to The 7 Habits , I had a chance to interview another of Covey's sons -- Stephen M.R. Covey, best-selling author of The Speed of Trust . He joined me on the Love in Action podcast  to discuss his father's work and legacy, including the reasons why the book has stood the test of time. 

With new powerful insights and anecdotes added to this edition, the book offers a structured process for living with fairness , integrity , honesty , and human dignity . It now takes its three decades of leadership and personal growth to the next level.

A refreshed look at leadership from the desk of CEO and chief content officer Stephanie Mehta

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A Quick Summary of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (2024)

During his 25 years of working with successful individuals in business, universities, and relationship settings, Stephen Covey discovered that high-achievers were often plagued with a sense of emptiness. In an attempt to understand why, he read several self-improvement, self-help, and popular psychology books written over the past 200 years. It was here that he noticed a stark historical contrast between two types of success. 

Before the First World War, success was attributed to ethics of character. This included characteristics such as humility, fidelity, integrity, courage, and justice. However, after the war, there was a shift to what Covey refers to as the “Personality Ethic.” Here, success was attributed as a function of personality, public image, behaviors, and skills. Yet, these were just shallow, quick successes, overlooking the deeper principles of life.

Covey argues it’s your character that needs to be cultivated to achieve sustainable success, not your personality. What we are says far more than what we say or do. The “Character Ethic” is based upon a series of principles. Covey claims that these principles are self-evident and endure in most religious, social, and ethical systems. They have universal application. When you value the correct principles, you see reality as it truly is. This is the foundation of his bestselling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People .

What Are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?

Covey’s seven habits are composed of the primary principles of character upon which happiness and success are based. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People puts forward a principle-centered approach to both personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Rather than focusing on altering the outward manifestations of your behavior and attitudes, it aims to adapt your inner core, character, and motives.

The seven habits in this book will help you move from a state of dependence, to independence, and finally to interdependence. While society and most of the self-help books on the market champion independence as the highest achievement, Covey argues that it’s interdependence that yields the greatest results. 

Interdependence is a more mature, advanced concept. It precludes the knowledge that you are an independent being, but that working with others will produce greater results than working on your own. To attain this level of interdependence, you must cultivate each of the seven habits laid out in the book. The seven habits are as follows:

• Be proactive
• Begin with the end in mind
• Put first things first
• Think win/win
• Seek to understand first, before making yourself understood
• Learn to synergize
• Sharpen the saw

This 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book summary will look at each of these habits and show you how to put them into action to become more successful in whatever you want to achieve.

Habit 1: Be Proactive

The first and most fundamental habit of an effective person is to be proactive. More than just taking the initiative, being proactive means taking responsibility for your life. Consequently, you don’t blame your behavior on external factors such as circumstances, but own it as part of a conscious choice based on your values. Where reactive people are driven by feelings, proactive people are driven by values.

While external factors have the ability to cause pain, your inner character doesn’t need to be damaged. What matters most is how you respond to these experiences. Proactive individuals focus their efforts on the things they can change, whereas reactive people focus their efforts on the areas of their lives in which they have no control. They amass negative energy by blaming external factors for their feelings of victimization. This, in turn, empowers other forces to perpetually control them.

The clearest manifestation of proactivity can be seen in your ability to stick to the commitments you make to yourself and to others. This includes a commitment to self-improvement and, by extension, personal growth. By setting small goals and sticking to them, you gradually increase your integrity, which increases your ability to take responsibility for your life. Covey suggests undertaking a 30-day proactivity test in which you make a series of small commitments and stick to them. Observe how this changes your sense of self.

Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

To better understand this habit, Covey invites you to imagine your funeral. He asks you to think how you would like your loved ones to remember you, what you would like them to acknowledge as your achievements, and to consider what a difference you made in their lives. Engaging in this thought experiment helps you identify some of your key values that should underpin your behavior. 

Accordingly, each day of your life should contribute to the vision you have for your life as a whole. Knowing what is important to you means you can live your life in service of what matters most. Habit two involves identifying old scripts that are taking you away from what matters most, and writing new ones that are congruent with your deepest values. This means that, when challenges arise, you can meet them proactively and with integrity, as your values are clear.

Covey states that the most effective way to begin with the end in mind is to create a personal mission statement. It should focus on the following:

• What you want to be (character)
• What you want to do (contributions and achievements)
• The values upon which both of these things are based

In time, your mission statement will become your personal constitution. It becomes the basis from which you make every decision in your life. By making principles the center of your life, you create a solid foundation from which to flourish. This is similar to the philosophy Ray Dalio presents in his book, Principles . As principles aren’t contingent on external factors, they don’t waver. They give you something to hold on to when times get tough. With a principle-led life, you can adopt a clearer, more objective worldview.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

To begin this chapter, Covey asks you to answer the following questions:

• What one thing could you do regularly, that you aren’t currently doing, that would improve your personal life?
• Similarly, what one thing could you do to improve your business or professional life?

Whereas habit one encourages you to realize you are in charge of your own life, and habit two is based on the ability to visualize and to identify your key values, habit three is the implementation of these two habits. It focuses on the practice of effective self-management through independent will. By asking yourself the above questions, you become aware that you have the power to significantly change your life in the present.

Thus, having an independent will means you are capable of making decisions and acting on them. How frequently you use your independent will is dependent on your integrity. Your integrity is synonymous with how much you value yourself and how well you keep your commitments. Habit three concerns itself with prioritizing these commitments and putting the most important things first. This means cultivating the ability to say no to things that don’t match your guiding principles. To manage your time effectively in accordance with habit three, your actions must adhere to the following:

• They must be principle-centered.
• They must be conscience-directed, meaning that they give you the opportunity to organize your life in accordance with your core values.
• They define your key mission, which includes your values and long-term goals.
• They give balance to your life.
• They are organized weekly, with daily adaptations as needed.

The thread that ties all five of these points together is that the focus is on improving relationships and results, not on maximizing your time. This shares sentiments with Tim Ferris who, in The 4-Hour Work Week , argues that time management is a deeply flawed concept .

Habit 4: Think Win/Win

Covey argues that win/win isn’t a technique, it’s a philosophy of human interaction. It’s a frame of mind that seeks out a mutual benefit for all concerned. This means that all agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial, and all parties feel satisfied with the outcome. To embody this mindset, life must be seen as a cooperative, not a competition. Consequently, anything less than a win/win outcome goes against the pursuit of interdependence, which is the most efficient state to be operating within.

Therefore, to adopt a win/win mindset, you must cultivate the habit of interpersonal leadership. This involves exercising each of the following traits when interacting with others:

• Self-awareness
• Imagination
• Independent will

To be an effective win/win leader, Covey argues that you must embrace five independent dimensions:

• Character: This is the foundation upon which a win/win mentality is created, and it means acting with integrity, maturity, and an “abundance mentality” (i.e., there is plenty of everything for everyone, one person’s success doesn’t threaten your success).
• Relationships: Trust is essential to achieving win/win agreements. You must nourish your relationships to maintain a high level of trust.
• Agreements: This means that the parties involved must agree on the desired results, guidelines, resources, accountability, and the consequences.
• Win/win performance agreements and supportive systems: Creating a standardized, agreed-upon set of desired results to measure performance within a system that can support a win/win mindset.
• Processes: All processes must allow for win/win solutions to arise.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

If you want to improve your interpersonal relations, Covey argues that you must endeavor to understand a situation before attempting to make yourself understood. The ability to communicate clearly is essential for your overall effectiveness, as it’s the most important skill you can train. While you spend years learning to read, write, and speak, Covey states that little focus is given to training the skill of listening.

If your principles are solid, you’ll naturally want to engage and listen to people without making them feel manipulated. Consequently, it’s through your character that you transmit and communicate what type of a person you are. Through it, people will come to instinctively trust and open up to you. While most people listen with the intent of replying, the proficient listener will listen with the intent to understand. This is known as the skill of empathic listening.

An empathic listener can get into the frame of reference of the person speaking. By doing so, they see the world as they do and feel things the way they feel. Empathic listening, therefore, allows you to get a clearer picture of reality. When you begin to listen to people with the intent of understanding them, you’ll be astounded at how quickly they will open up.

Once you think you’ve understood the situation, the next step is to make yourself understood. This requires courage. By using what you’ve learned from empathic listening, you can communicate your ideas in accordance with your listener’s paradigms and concerns. This increases the credibility of your ideas, as you will be speaking in the same language as your audience.

Habit 6: Synergize

When synergy is operating at its fullest, it incorporates the desire to reach win/win agreements with empathic communication. It’s the essence of principle-centered leadership. It unifies and unleashes great power from people, as it’s based on the tenant that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The real challenge is to apply principles of synergetic creative cooperation into your social interactions. Covey argues that such instances of synergetic interpersonal group collaboration are often neglected but should be part of your daily life.

At its core, synergy is a creative process that requires vulnerability, openness, and communication. It means balancing the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between a group of people and, in doing so, creating new paradigms of thought between the group members. This is where creativity is maximized. Synergy is effectiveness as an interdependent reality. This involves teamwork, team building, and the creation of unity with other human beings.

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

This seventh habit is all about enhancing yourself through the four dimensions of renewal:

• Physical: Exercise, nutrition, and stress management. This means caring for your physical body, eating right, getting enough sleep, and exercising regularly.
• Social/emotional: Service, empathy, synergy, and intrinsic security. This provides you with a feeling of security and meaning.
• Spiritual: Value clarification and commitment, study, and meditation. In focusing on this area of your life, you get closer to your center and your inner value system.
• Mental: Reading, visualizing, planning, and writing. To continually educate yourself means expanding your mind. This is essential for effectiveness.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Researchers Steve Wallace

Introduction • Technical writing teacher – NCTU, NTHU, ITRI - Motivation • Research Researchers • Habits to produce more papers in higher impact journals.

Method • Data from interviews, phone, conferences and universities • Position as editor has allowed opportunity • Compiled into 7 basic “habits” which summarize advice and tips in 7 areas • To get the most honest responses researchers remained anonymous. This was an important condition to getting practical material.

Overview of Researchers • An effective researcher was defined as a researcher who has publish a average of five or more SCI or SCCI papers a year every year for the last five years. • There were a total of 146 effective researchers: • 34 - Engineering • 17 - Management and Business • 11 - Foreign Language and Literature • 10 - Education • 31 - Natural sciences • 20 - Medicine • 12 - Social sciences • 6 - Law • 5 - History and Liberal Arts

Habit #1 Effective researchers have a publication supply chain. Quote • “I view producing every paper like producing a product, a creative product like a movie. We have screenings, editors and deadlines to release our product. I am not always the director of the movie, that might be me or it could be one of my students. But I am always the producer. The producer needs to push everybody so that the movie can be released on time.” - Civil Engineering Professor # 78

Practice Capturing raw material when away from the computer: • Collect ideas: - Notebook, Post It notes • Transferred to ongoing files • Notes could be organized and edited into the beginning of a paper. • Easier to begin writing when there were already ideas

Practice for master’s studentsGenerate papers from your thesis You invested two or more years writing your thesis. • Try to generate a couple of papers from the most important chapters of the thesis. • This is easier than writing a totally new paper from scratch. Work jointly with your advisor to help market your papers.

PracticeCollect a pool of potential journals for each article • For each paper, note the pool of potential journals. • Do not submit two papers to the same journal in two months, especially if the two articles are related. • Editors prefer to publish two articles by different authors.

PracticePick journals like you pick stocks • Do homework on journals. • Submit paper to a journal with a rising impact factor and higher acceptance rates. avoid declining journals with low acceptance and diminishing impact factor. • Could cause the journal to be removed from the SSCI and SCI ranking.

Practice Identifying journals with rising impact factors • Good specialty journal’s impact factors are rising. • General journal’s impact factor, except for a few at the top, are expected to decline • In general journals, "readers are confronted with a decreasing probability of finding at least one important article in their field." (Holub, Tappeiner, and Eberharter, 1991). • In the 1970s, the top ten journals in every field were general journals. • In the 1990s, half of the top ten journals were specialized journals.

Practice Betting your research where you have the highest probability for publication. • Sometimes journals have biases and preferences • Subject matter: Empirical, Theoretical papers? • Check past issues of the journal. How many Chinese names can you find? • Preferences are known; biases are difficult to detect.

Practice Keep a record of your publications • Some effective researchers use a “research log” to: • 1) Know when to send a reminder to the editor • 2) Prevent resubmission of a rejected paper to the same journal and • 3) Avoid multiple submission of several papers to the same journal within a short period of time.

Practice Approach different types of journals • Sending all papers to top journals is risky • Sending all papers to low-quality journals is unsatisfactory • Quantity and quality important. • Having three papers in different journals is better than three in one journal, if the relative quality of the journals is the same.

Practice Maintain a stock of papers under review constantly • If the acceptance rate of the top-ranking journals is 15%, you need about 7 papers under review at all times to have one paper accepted per year. • This does not mean that you should write 7 new papers each year. • If your goal is to get 10 papers accepted in the first 5 years of your career, you need about a dozen papers under review at all times.

PracticeDon't put two good ideas in one paper Separate them into two papers. • As the paper's length increases beyond 15 pages, the chance of acceptance drops. • When a topic is split into two papers, the probability of getting at least one of them accepted more than doubles. • You also will get a paper accepted sooner. • Editors like short papers. • The chance that a referee will detect a mathematical error declines. • Referees will return the report faster. • The chance that a referee will misunderstand the paper also decreases.

PracticeRecycle parts of other papers to make new papers • Parts of the introduction, methods and discussion can often be recycled to make a new paper • A paper can look at the same problem from a different perspective. Social, political, environment, financial, etc. • Collaborating across disciplines often creates interesting topics journals are eager to publish.

Consider different subtopics • Average wait for an acceptance decision = 3 years. • Average wait for a rejection = 6 to 8 months. • Survival is more important than glory in the early stages of your career. • If you publish in one area, then focus your effort in that field • Continuing to write papers in the same narrow area without evidence of success is risky. It is like putting all your eggs in one basket.

Practice Incorporate English editing into your supply chain Use professional editorial assistance • Particularly if you are not a native English speaker • Editors will not publish papers with grammatical errors. • Referees are often biased; they have an excuse to recommend rejection with grammatical errors

Reasons for major revision or rejection of Taiwanese journal papers

Habit #2 Sacrifice other interests • Researchers gave up hobbies, games and time with friends to become high impact researchers. Most mentioned that they still had time for family, but less TV, computer games, and sports. • When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. • Theodore Roosevelt

Quotes about sacrifice: • “It’s the same with anything you want to be good at. You have to give up something to get something else. I gave up watching baseball games, it was painful at first, but now I enjoy the feeling of publishing so much. I really don’t miss it.” —-Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor #9 • “I always tell my students that they will get what they put in. If they waste time doing research, time won’t wait for them, and they aren’t getting any younger. If they want to make an impact they better start now because it takes a long time.’”- Electrical Engineering Associate Professor #30

Habit #3Practice research like golf • Researchers talked about the methods, writing, grammar, and other parts of their paper like a golf player talking about different golf club swings. • Beautiful swings are great but a few bad hits can disqualify you. • Researchers watch and improve their publishing game like an athlete perfecting his sport

PracticeQuote on specific skills “Traditionally my introduction is a bit weak; I have a challenge selling the problem to reviewers. I’ve got to be able to present the problem better if I want people to be interested in my solution. I’m getting better but I’m constantly aware that this is a weakness, and I need to practice to improve.” – Mechanical Engineering Professor # 31

Revision as practice • “After finishing a journal paper I don’t immediately submit it to a journal. It is not finished yet. I always find small errors in text, notations, explanations, or missing references, in my finished paper. I’m especially careful when rereading the introduction and abstract before submission. A small error on the first page of introduction or abstract indicates I was careless. Errors here make referees and editors conclude that the paper should be rejected. They conclude that the author is likely to be careless in content as well as English. And they might be right.”- Educational Psychology Associate Professor #12

Revision (Continued) • “If you don't proofread your own introduction, why expect the referees to spot and correct all the errors?” - Chinese History Professor - # 2 • “You should always check spelling before submission. But there are no substitutes for reading the papers personally. Spelling checkers do not check word meanings.” – Electrical Engineering Post Doctoral Researcher # 102

PracticeImitate skillful writers Read how successful writers introduce their topic and cite literature • Imitate their words and phrases, and modify them to suit your topic • Create a file of template sentences

Habit #4 Dramatize process by creating mental models • Researchers see their writing and researching in dramatic terms. • Some use strong metaphors to create exciting mental pictures to encourage themselves and their labs. • “The great struggle”. • Model of building a house • Killing a monster

Habit #5 Writers use the competitive, political and supportive energy of other researchers. • Supportive energy: Support groups • Competitive energy: Researchers compare themselves with other researchers and keep score • Political: Researchers are political. • The negative side is that half of peer reviewed articles in top rated journals are never referenced by anyone, including the author. This shows that low impact papers are often published in the best journals because the articles are reviewed by friends of the author. (Holub, Tappeiner, and Eberharter, SEJ 1991).

PracticeDon’t Criticize References • I think that the author knows his subject better than I do. I usually use his references to find a suitable reviewer - Associate Editor, Journal of Retailing • Don’t emphasize the importance of your paper by putting down on other papers. Your references are probably your reviewers and they are sensitive.

Complement potential reviewers • Important references should be mentioned in the first page. The editor usually chooses reviewers from those mentioned in the introduction and references. • Be generous to all authors, explain why their research is significant for your analysis. • This uses less than 1% of the space, but significantly affects the probability of acceptance

Practice Cite researchers who like you • Include references to authors who like your papers. They might become referees. • Include references to people with who you met at conferences. • This is to get a fair chance. Referees have to make an effort to be fair to unknown authors.

Meet 100 active researchers • There are about a hundred people in your research field who are likely to be referees of your papers. • Prepare a list of one hundred active people in your main research area. Try to meet them within a five-year period. • Present papers at, or at least attend, two professional meetings a year. When presenting papers or attending regional, national, or international meetings, try to get to know these people. • This is your best opportunity for networking. When you go to conferences smile and “work the room.”

PracticePay attention to reviewers’ comments • “I don’t’ think you treated Smith fairly in your literature review, his insights deserve more respect.” • “You forgot to include Smith as a reference in you paper. His work is fundamental to understanding your research.”

Scan journal for related articles • Try to find some related articles in the journal to which you wish to submit your paper. • Authors who published a paper on a related subject are likely to be referees. The editor still remembers them and has a connection to them. Obviously, you need to cite their papers. • Even if they are slightly related, try to use their references. Explain how your work is related.

Habit #6 Get rejected • When rejected, try again • Even Nobel Laureates get rejection letters. • Play “ping pong” with the paper. Submit the paper to another journal within one month. • You do not have to revise a paper every time it is rejected. But if a paper is rejected 4 times, there is a serious flaw in the paper. Find and fix the problem. • Why? The same referee might get it again.

Notes on Failure Any situation stops being a failure when we start learning from it. No one ever learned anything from being perfect. To avoid criticism, saying nothing do-nothing be nothing.

PracticeDelete or hide the references to undesirable potential referees • You can guess the identity of the reviewers from the reviewers’ comments because of references and writing style. • Editors select reviewers from your references. If some reviewers always recommend rejection of your papers, drop their papers from your references (the first time you submit). You can add them later (after the paper is accepted). You can also put them into the body of the paper where they are harder to find • This may require rewriting the introduction with a different perspective

Eliminate any trace of prior rejections • Do not show when the paper was first written. • Do not show how many times the paper has been revised. • Document property check

Problems of Journals Association journals: Editors change every few years, and they usually accept more papers from colleagues and friends. Since the editors are chosen from a few major institutions, they get a larger share of publications. The are subsidized by associations. (AER, Econometrica, IEEE, ACM) University journals: Universities protect their own interests. Will often have a stated preference for their own teachers’ and students’ papers. Subsidized by universities. (HBR, MIT Sloan) Commercial journals: Least likely to have preferences or biases. Depend on reader subscriptions. (Blackwell, North-Holland,Elsevier )

PracticeAvoid the journals which consistently reject your papers Temporarily avoid journals which always reject you The editor still remembers bad comments about your papers. Wait until a new editor is appointed. If you think there is prejudice on the basis of sex, race, or nationality, you may consider using initials instead of spelling out the first and middle names. First and middle names, as well as last name, often reveal the sex, race, or nationality of the authors. You may write your full name after the paper is accepted.

Do not waste time on dead or dying topics • If your most recent references are ten years old, it is a dead issue. • If the most recent references closely related to your paper are 5 years old, it is a dying issue. • It is also difficult for the editor to find suitable referees for outdated topics. • Your inability to find enough references indicates • You have not read the literature. • Others are not interested in the topic, so, it is unlikely to get published.

Revision from reviewers comments • The time limit for resubmission is usually six months to a year from the date of the invitation letter. • This is your last chance to revise the paper. You a have 50% chance. • Poor revisions will surely result in rejection. • If you lose your chance to submit, you may wait three more years. Go the extra mile.

Write a detailed response to individual referees • Take every comment seriously. • First thank the reviewer. • Number all comments and respond • Indicate that you are doing everything possible. • If you cannot follow the demands, thank the referee for the suggestion, but explain why they are beyond the scope of the paper or why it is not possible at the time.

Do not attack referees Generally, it is not a good idea to attack the reviewers. • Do not say: "The referee's idea is bad, but mine is good." • Better to say, the referee has an interesting idea, but the proposed idea is also good, particularly because of this or that fact. • If the referee makes a good point (you can almost always find conditions under which the referee's points are good), explain why you are not pursuing that strategy in the paper.

Habit #7Writers write (and don’t always enjoy it.) • Common misunderstanding that good writers enjoy writing • Many hate writing. But enjoyed the results. • Forced themselves into a daily writing routine.

Quotes about action • “Inspiration is overrated, it’s all about hard work and there’s really no way around it.” – Computer Science Professor #77 • “Nobody loves English writing. It is only a tool, a necessary tool, without it no one will appreciate our good ideas and reviewers will kill us” – Electrical Engineering researcher- # 3

Planning vs. Action • Talking about writing isn’t writing. Thinking about writing isn’t writing. Dreaming isn’t writing. Neither are outlining, researching, or taking notes. All these may be necessary to getting a project completed, but only writing is writing.

PracticeResearchers learn motivation for writing about their topic. • Reseachers first forced themselves to write and later developed an interest in writing. •  Professor William James

Make writing a daily habit • Use timed bursts • Rational and reactive self • Lie to yourself

Researchers are proud of the term researcher and their total impact • Quote • “I used to think that research all happened in a lab. That my results were the only thing that mattered. I now realize that the experiment isn’t over and the results haven’t really happened until they have been shared with a wider academic community. Writing is part of research and I’m proud to be both a researcher and author because the two can’t be separated.” – Computer Science Professor - #77

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Well, a big announcement for me. Probably doesn’t affect you all that much. But I posted a video on all my social channels announcing that my company, Fantasy Life, had finalized a deal to acquire Guillotine Leagues , a league manager platform that offers a very specific style of fantasy football. More on that later, but the reason I bring it up is because the reaction to the tweet was generally very kind. People were excited for my friend Paul Charchian , the founder of Guillotine Leagues, to have sold his company. Fans of the format were excited by the new resources and upgrades Fantasy Life was making to the platform, including making it 100% free to play. And then there was Justin, aka @jjcav95, whose reaction to the video was “holy s*** matthew berry got old and I don’t know when it happened.” Well, Justin, the answer is … always? Ha! I feel like I’ve looked old my entire life. Certainly ever since I’ve been on TV, which is closing in on 20 years. Genetics can be a bit**. But let’s be honest. I am kinda old. Which may not make Justin happy, but is a benefit to you, gentle reader. Because you see, when you are old, it means you’re experienced. You’ve been there, done that. You have, as they say, seen some s***. And that includes drafts. My first draft was actually an auction and it was a deep NL only 10 team fantasy baseball league. I was 14 years old. Since that time, between mocks and real drafts, tens of thousands of drafts. Seriously, I’m sitting here calculating it and I’ve now done almost four decades of drafts. (Damn, Justin might really have a point.) Every possible kind of format, sport, league type, on and on, seriously … if it exists, I’ve seen it, done it, bought the commemorative t-shirt. And as a result, I’ve seen a LOT of what to do and even more of what NOT to do. And what I have realized is that, while there is no “one right way to do it,” there are a number of specific principles successful players all follow. As luck would have it, as it is every year, that’s what this article is about. So brothers and sisters, friends of the revolution, I’d like to officially welcome you to the 26 th edition of the often imitated, never duplicated, heart-stopping, knowledge-dropping, ADP-rocking, booty-shaking, strategy-making, earth-quaking, sleeper-taking, Springsteen-stealing, logic-justifying, death-defying, legendary DRAFT DAY MANIFESTO! When you write a theory column for over a quarter century there is always going to be some familiarity. So, what follows are some thoughts that longtime readers will find familiar but there is also a lot that is new this year, including being updated based on 2023 results, the 2024 player pool and — as I was just reminding all the happy customers that bought the Fantasy Life Draft Champion tool , which allows you to customize your draft software to match whatever league size, format and strategy (zero RB? Punt TE?) that you need — there will also be some over-the-top, self-serving promotion and at least one new joke. (That wasn’t it). The Rotoworld Fantasy Football Draft Guide is now available exclusively through a new partnership with Matthew Berry’s Fantasy Life. Buy a FantasyLife+ subscription and get the Rotoworld Draft Guides, along with award-winning Fantasy, Betting & DFS tools. Use ROTO10 at checkout to save 10%! As always, thanks to my producer Damian Dabrowski for his help at various points in this column. So let’s get to it. After almost 40 years of drafting, I can tell you, with the utmost of certainty… These are The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Drafters: Habit 1: They spend a ton of time of preparing Just because it seems obvious doesn’t mean it’s not true. Draft day mirrors many aspects of life, but perhaps none more than this: What you put into it, is what you get out of it. So you need to prep, but before you prep, you need to know exactly what you are prepping for. And that starts with studying the rules and, more importantly, figuring out the best ways to exploit said rules. What’s the scoring? Because that obviously will impact the type of players you target. Is it half-PPR or full-PPR? Because over the past two seasons, 88% of the RBs who have finished top-12 in PPG in PPR scoring had a target share of at least 10%. The only ones who didn’t were Nick Chubb in 2022 and Raheem Mostert and Jonathan Taylor last season. Is there premium scoring for tight ends? Points for first downs? For long punts? Don’t laugh. I played in a punter league once. And crushed it like a grape, thank you very much. Is this a dynasty league, where youth and talent should be more of a priority than current team role? Is it a Superflex or 2 QB league where elite QBs are much more of a priority than a 1 QB league? Is it a Guillotine League where the key is much more about week-to-week consistency and floor rather than upside? (In a Guillotine League, the lowest scoring team each week gets dropped from the league and all their players go into the free agent pool.) What’s your typical starting lineup? Having to start 2 WRs vs 3 (or more) affects how you approach the RB position, especially early. (For example, 7 of my top-10 players this year and 5 of my top-6 are WR, but in a league where I only have to start two WRs I’d move Breece Hall and Bijan Robinson up in my rankings.) What’s your roster size? How do you acquire free-agent players in your league? If it’s a free-agent budget, you can be a bit riskier on draft day because you will have a shot at every player if you need to replace someone. But if it’s a waiver system, it will be tougher to get the hot free agents, especially if the rules allow someone to sit on the top pick for multiple weeks. So, you’ll need to focus a little more on depth during the draft. Does your league have an IR spot? If so, how many? Being able to use IR spots allows you to take more chances on talented but injury-prone players, or players that are already hurt. For example, some leagues allow players who have an “OUT” designation to be placed in the IR spot, which means that if you draft DeAndre Hopkins or Josh Downs and they’re not ready to go by Week 1, you can place them into your IR slot and pick up an additional player. How about a spot for suspended players? If you play in a league with an NA spot, drafting players like Rashee Rice or Jordan Addison becomes much easier. In last year’s version of the manifesto, I used Alvin Kamara as the example here. Just think about how big of an advantage it was if you were able to stash Kamara (who finished as the RB3 in PPG in 2023) for those first three weeks without having to use a bench spot. All of these questions lead to roster construction, which will be a key part of your draft-day success. Understanding roster size, how players are acquired during the season, and any roster restrictions you may have (a limit on the number of RBs, for example) will help you as you start to evaluate players. Can you fairly easily find solid production at various positions during the year via the waiver wire? If so, you can roster more “fliers.” Conversely, in deeper leagues where the free-agent pool is scarce, you’ll need some solid middle-of-the-road types to plug in during bye weeks and when injuries hit. When do your playoffs start? How many teams make it? How are Week 14 byes going to affect your fantasy playoffs? With the NFL having moved to an 18-week season, some of these questions are more important than ever before. Effective drafters also account for what platform they are playing on, because wherever you play, the draft is highly influenced by the default rankings in the draft room. People panic during a draft and often take the highest-ranked player available. Having a set of rankings you trust and believe in and comparing them to the default ranks of whatever site you play on will help you identify which players are going too early, which players are going too late, what market inefficiencies there are and how you can exploit them. For example, look at these current ADP differences between Yahoo and ESPN leagues (note: this ADP may already look different by the time you’re reading this, but this is how it was at the time of my writing). Yahoo ADP vs. ESPN ADP Differences Kyler Murray: 58.0 vs. 90.4 Jared Goff: 103.4 vs. 149.6 Josh Jacobs: 26.9 vs. 41.3 James Conner: 60.3 vs. 85.6 Raheem Mostert: 65.6 vs. 105.6 Brandon Aiyuk: 27.3 vs. 44.5 Deebo Samuel: 28.6 vs. 48.1 Amari Cooper: 50.3 vs. 83.4 Calvin Ridley: 95.8 vs. 74.6 Jake Ferguson: 79.5 vs. 100.4 Now, yes part of this is influenced by the fact that Yahoo default scoring is half-PPR whereas ESPN is full-PPR, but even that doesn’t explain some of these massive ADP gaps. Just think about how differently you would build your team if you could draft Kyler Murray in the 8 th round instead of the 5 th round. Or Deebo Samuel in the late 4 th instead of the early 3 rd . Use this information to your advantage and ensure you’re not reaching for players you don’t need to be. And one more related tip. If it’s a league where you know the other managers, you can add in notations about the tendencies of other drafters. (This one always reaches for young, buzzy players, this other one stockpiles quarterbacks, etc.). Editor’s Note:   Create or join a private Yahoo Fantasy league and enter the $1 Million in the NBC Sweepstakes. Download the redesigned Yahoo Fantasy app or  click here  for more details. Finally, mock draft as much as possible, especially once you know what spot you are picking from. What happens if you go with Sam LaPorta or Travis Kelce in the second round? What about a “Zero RB” or “Hero RB” approach? What if you go RB heavy and start your draft with 2-3 straight running backs? What if you take Josh Allen early? The more options you play with to see how your team turns out, the more prepared you will be when the real draft happens, and you’ll be much more comfortable adjusting on the fly. To that end, I’m gonna once again plug the Fantasy Life Draft Champion tool . Yes, it’s self serving but it’s legit advice from me to you. Practice makes perfect. You can mock draft all of these scenarios. Want to import the ADP from Yahoo? Sleeper? ESPN? FFPC? Underdog? etc., etc. You can import ADP from eight different sources, choose your draft spot, choose your league settings, choose your league type (Best ball, dynasty, keeper, etc.) and choose how you draft (like, do you have a 3 rd round reversal? Because Fantasy Life Draft Champion will let you mock with that). You can choose both YOUR strategy (Hero RB, Zero RB, Punt TE, Early WR, Late Round QB, etc.) AND you can also choose what strategy you want for ALL OF THE OTHER DRAFTERS. If you know the guy in front of you is a Late Round QB guy and the person behind you will go more balanced, you can program that. You can also get draft grades and analysis of what you did right and where you can improve from both myself and many of our Fantasy Life experts. Seriously. We spent a year building it. It’s ridiculous. Oh, and it’s free. Habit 2: They identify the relative depth at every position Okay, you’ve identified ADP discrepancies on whatever site you’re drafting on, you know the rules and you have a strategy that is tailor made to your league’s scoring. You’ve read a ton and while you don’t have every stat memorized, you have a general opinion on every single player that is likely to get drafted in your league. Even if it’s just a “yay” or “nay.” But, I gotta tell you … it isn’t enough to just have an opinion on every potential player. You also need to understand every player’s value relative to every other player and the depth of that position as it relates to your roster needs. QB is deep, you say? Not if you play in a 14-team Superflex league. Then they start going quickly. When you draft, you have to understand that you’re not just collecting as many good players as possible. You’re constructing a roster with specific and finite resources. You only have so many roster spots, so you need to maximize each one and part of doing that is understanding how easy or hard it will be to replace players during the season. RELATED: Matthew Berry’s Latest Positional Rankings for 2024 Here’s a quick overview of how I see the positions this year: Quarterback It should be obvious by now, but the biggest factor in QB scoring is rushing production. It’s the number one reason why Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson routinely finish at the top of the position each season. It’s also why fantasy managers are so excited about the upside of players like Anthony Richardson and Jayden Daniels. Now, that’s not to say it’s impossible for a pocket-passer to deliver a top-5 QB season, it’s just far less likely. For example, for a player like Joe Burrow or Dak Prescott to reach that ceiling they essentially need to have a career year, whereas Allen or Hurts can do so even while having a subpar season by their standards. Consider this. Last season in Week 2, Anthony Richardson scored 17.7 fantasy points. He did so while playing a total of 17 plays in that game (he was knocked out with a concussion early in the second quarter). Can you imagine how hard it would be for a non-rushing QB to score almost 18 points in essentially one quarter? Now, the good news is there are more mobile QBs in the NFL than ever before. Even players who you may not think of as big runners such as Patrick Mahomes, Jordan Love and Trevor Lawrence all make strong contributions with their legs. So when it comes to my QB strategy for 2024, it’s really quite simple. I want a QB who runs. I have no issue paying up for Allen or Hurts because aside from their elite ceilings, those two players also offer an unmatched level of consistency. Patrick Mahomes (quietly 389 rushing yards last year, behind only Lamar Jackson, Justin Fields, Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen among starting or potentially starting QBs this year) and the aforementioned Lamar are also strong options early on. But if you miss out, don’t worry, there’s still Anthony Richardson, Kyler Murray and Jayden Daniels as fallback options. On the other hand, I probably won’t have a ton of C.J. Stroud this season. Not because I don’t think he’s going to have a great year, but because you can likely get 80% of that production from a Dak Prescott or Brock Purdy at a much lower cost. That said, if you’re going to choose a pocket passer, you likely don’t want to wait too long. Given the current landscape of the position, it’s going to be an uphill battle to build a dominant team with a pocket passer like Tua Tagovailoa, Kirk Cousins or an Aaron Rodgers as your starting QB. Running back The RB landscape is particularly difficult to evaluate because it differs so much from league to league. If you’ve been doing Bestball drafts all summer, you’re probably convinced RB production is cheaper than it’s ever been before. But a quick look at the early ADPs on Yahoo and ESPN shows that more casual drafters are still often hammering the position in the early rounds. So, especially in leagues where you are only required to start two wide receivers, I’ve often found myself leaning towards a “Hero” or “Anchor” RB strategy in order to maximize value. This partly depends on draft slot, but one way to do this is by starting your team with one of Christian McCaffrey, Breece Hall or Bijan Robinson and then ignoring the position for the next few rounds. This could also be done with Saquon Barkley, Jonathan Taylor or Derrick Henry, especially if you pick towards the end of Round 1 and went WR at the end of the first, but you’re giving up a lot of receiving production if you choose that route. Probably my most common roster build to this point is a modified version of this strategy where I have ended up with a lot of Isiah Pacheco and sometimes Joe Mixon as my RB1, especially in situations where I felt the ADP value was too good to pass up. (Pacheco specifically is gonna have a monster year). Part of the reason you can get away zero RBs or just one RB early is because, once again, there is a lot of what I like to call “cheap volume” from RBs in the 4 th through 7 th rounds. It varies by site, but among the RBs going in the 4 th round or later on Yahoo as of this writing include guys like David Montgomery, Alvin Kamara and James Conner. I’ll also say that, continuing a trend from the past few seasons, I once again find the RB 25-35 range very appealing. Based on current Yahoo ADP, Jaylen Warren, Brian Robinson, and Tony Pollard are all going past pick 90 and I’m more than happy to land any of those players as my RB2 in builds where I already have 3-4 very strong WRs as well as a high-end QB and TE. Or as an upside RB3 if you get an anchor RB, a cheap RB volume guy in the 4 th to 6 th round range, have a strong WR core and have decided to wait on one of TE or QB. If you find yourself feeling thin at RB in the later rounds, you can always find super cheap volume in the form of guys like Devin Singletary or Ezekiel Elliott, but my preferred strategy in that area of the draft is to focus on the younger, more exciting upside options such as Chase Brown, Tyjae Spears, Zach Charbonnet, Jonathan Brooks and Blake Corum. Yes, the range of outcomes on those players is much wider, but so is their contingent upside. (We’ll get to that more in a bit). And finally, as an overall approach to the position, you want to target volume and high-value touches (receptions and red zone opportunities). Remember, the talent of the player matters, but it’s far less correlated to fantasy production at RB than at any of the other positions. (In other words, bad RBs can easily get to fantasy production as long as they have volume and high-value touches). RELATED: Denny Carter explains why he’s drafting “boring” RBs this year Wide receiver The top of this position is once again absolutely loaded with high-end talent. I could honestly see any of my top-10 ranked WRs finishing as the WR1 this season without even having to squint much. And the depth at the position is equally impressive. Tee Higgins was being picked on the 2/3 turn last season and now he’s going as the WR25 on Yahoo. Keenan Allen finished as the WR3 in PPG last season and currently has an ADP of 86 on ESPN, which again primarily uses PPR scoring. Yes, both players have notable injury concerns, but the point remains that you’re able to get massive upside at a very discounted price. Because of this, I really want to attack the position with volume in the early to middle rounds and try to essentially be done drafting receivers before we get outside the top-50 or so at the position. A scenario where I can grab Diontae Johnson as my WR4 and add one of Christian Watson, Jordan Addison, Xavier Worthy or Ladd McConkey as a WR5 almost feels too good to be true, but it’s going to be totally realistic in a lot of leagues. Drafting a couple more rookies in the later rounds is never a bad idea, but unless you’re in a very deep league, I’d much rather use my later picks on insurance backs than low-upside depth WRs such as Tyler Lockett or Jakobi Meyers. In the past, I’ve often said that I either want to be the first person in my league to draft a TE or the last, but this season I find myself doing the exact opposite. The top-10 at the position is suddenly filled with exciting options whereas the late-round fliers just don’t seem as appealing as in years past. Now, part of that certainly has do to with the elite tier where Travis Kelce’s dominance of the position finally seems to be slowing down. Remember, in 2022, Kelce scored 100 more points than the TE2. Meanwhile in 2023, four other TEs finished within roughly one point per game of Kelce. I still have Kelce ranked as my TE2, but if you look at my overall rankings I only have him a few spots ahead of Trey McBride and Mark Andrews. So, I find it very hard to draft Sam LaPorta or Kelce at the 2/3 turn, which is where they’re currently going on Yahoo, when I can instead wait and get either McBride or Andrews at the 4/5 turn. In addition, I think Dalton Kincaid, Evan Engram and Kyle Pitts are all fairly priced while Jake Ferguson has been one of my most drafted players thus far. And let’s not forget David Njoku was the TE2 in PPG over his final 11 games last season. If you do happen to play in a deeper league or one that uses TE premium scoring, Pat Freiermuth and Noah Fant are two of the late-round options I’ve been targeting the most. And based on early reports from Saints camp, Taysom Hill is going to be a cheat code on platforms where he has TE eligibility. Habit 3: They abide by the one big secret of fantasy football At a fundamental level, fantasy football is entirely about minimizing risk and giving yourself the best odds to win on a weekly basis. That’s it. It's that simple. From the time you read this article until the end of your season, every single thing you do leads back to that very simple, but rarely followed approach. Every draft pick, waiver move, potential trade, start/sit decision and so on. Everything. I can’t predict the future. Neither can you. Neither can anyone else. So all you can do is minimize risk, give yourself the best odds to succeed every week, make the best call you can in the moment and let the chips fall where they may. Minimizing risk means you understand what the most likely outcomes are in each situation. And by doing that it allows you to maximize the upside shots you take. I believe way too many players (and fantasy analysts, to be honest) complicate things more than they need to. None of us can fully predict the future, so we are just playing the odds. It’s not guaranteed, but what’s most likely to happen? For example, Josh Allen has finished as a top-2 fantasy QB in four straight seasons. He’s averaged at least 23 PPG in each of those seasons. What’s most likely to happen? Chris Godwin scored two touchdowns on 130 targets last season. He converted only one of his 10 end zone targets. He was the only WR with over 1,000 receiving yards and fewer than three touchdowns. What’s most likely to happen this year? RELATED: Berry’s 100 Facts You Need To Know Before You Draft in 2024 Arizona selected Marvin Harrison Jr. with the No. 4 overall pick in the NFL draft. Since 2010, five of the six WRs drafted inside the top-5 saw at least 115 targets in their rookie seasons. The Cardinals do not currently have a WR on the roster with a career target share above 15%. What’s most likely to happen with MHJ? Derrick Henry has led the NFL in rush attempts in four of the past five seasons. He has six straight seasons with at least 1,000 scrimmage yards and 10 rushing touchdowns. Since Lamar Jackson became the starting QB in 2019, Baltimore RBs are averaging a league-high 4.8 YPC. What’s most likely to happen? Greg Roman offenses have ranked 27 th or lower in passing offense in eight of his 10 seasons as an offensive coordinator. They’ve ranked top-three in rush attempts in seven of those seasons. During Jim Harbaugh’s tenure as head coach, the 49ers ranked 2 nd in rush rate and 31 st in pass attempts. What’s most likely to happen with the Chargers' offense this year? And on and on and on. You get it. Now, most likely to happen doesn’t mean it WILL happen. It just means it’s much more likely to happen than not. And that’s all we can ask for. It’s like Blackjack. Staying when your cards are 17 or above doesn’t mean you’ll win every hand. It just means your odds of winning those hands over time is much more likely. Same in fantasy football. If you consistently play the odds, you’ll win a lot more than you won’t. And when you are evaluating players before and during the draft, as well as when you are building your team, that’s what you need to do. Just remember once again: At a fundamental level, fantasy football is entirely about minimizing risk and giving yourself the best odds to win on a weekly basis. So always ask yourself ... what’s most likely to happen? Habit 4: They use rankings flexibly and in context Whether they are your own, someone else’s, a consensus of multiple people or even just the default ones in the draft room, when you draft you are going to have a set of rankings. They are certainly helpful, but they should be used only as a guideline, and more so in the early parts of the draft. Once you get your first five players, it really becomes about roster construction based on what positions you need to fill, how much risk you’ve already taken and how the draft is playing out, taking into account all the factors we’ve already discussed. I say this speaking as someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on his rankings, but no list is going to nail end-of-season value, especially if you consider weekly variance. RELATED: Matthew Berry’s Top 200 Overall Rankings for 2024 Let’s use Christian Kirk and George Pickens as the example here. I currently have Kirk ranked as my WR28 and Pickens as my WR29. Over at FantasyLife.com , my friend Dwain McFarland has Kirk and Pickens back-to-back in his 2024 projections. He has Kirk projected for 223 points and Pickens for 222.8. I mean could it get any closer? And last season, Kirk finished as the WR33 in PPG (12.5), barely ahead of Pickens who was the WR36 at 12.3 PPG. But let’s take a closer look at how their 2023 seasons played out. Kirk played 11 full games, scoring at least 12.9 PPR points in eight of them. But he only had one game where he scored more than 19 points. Still, he gave us solid production in 73% of his healthy games. Pickens, meanwhile, exceeded 12.9 PPR points in only five of his 17 games. In fact, he scored single-digit fantasy points in 59% of his games last season. But he did have four games with over 20 points, including a 26-point game in Week 5 and a 35-point game in Week 16. So, which WR would you rather have? Well, I guess it depends, right? There were a few weeks last season where Pickens might’ve single handedly won you your matchup. But there were many more where you likely lost because he only scored six or seven points. Whereas Kirk was far less volatile. He may not have had any monster games, but there’s a ton of value in knowing you’re locking in 12 to 15 points every single week. The Kirk/Pickens example is a good exercise for how to use rankings within the context of the team you’re building. Their ADPs on Yahoo right now are unsurprisingly very similar, but unless you have a hard stance on which player you think will be better, it comes down to roster fit. If you’ve already drafted several volatile players and need to add some consistency, Kirk’s high floor should be very appealing. Conversely, if you already have another high-floor, low-ceiling WR such as Michael Pittman Jr., then pairing him with a player like Pickens is a good way to add some more upside to your roster. Habit 5: They focus on winning weeks It’s very simple, but so many people forget that fantasy football is a weekly game. Let’s go back to the George Pickens example one more time. You could say his 35-point game in Week 16 single-handedly won you a playoff matchup. That’s IF you started him. Big if. Consider that over the eight weeks prior to that 35-point game vs. Cincinnati in Week 16, Pickens was WR59. He was averaging just 7.8 PPG and had scored single-digit fantasy points in seven of his prior eight games. Not only did many people have him benched, but most teams that had Pickens either didn’t make the playoffs to begin with or did so despite him. And that’s the crucial part. It’s not enough to have players who score a lot. It’s important to know WHEN to start them. Starting elite players like CeeDee Lamb (or Eights as I call him) is easy. In theory, your first five picks should all be CeeDee Lambs -- the players you will start every week, barring injury or a bye. But what about the rest of your lineup? Once I get to the middle of my drafts, I no longer seek players who are consistent high-floor performers. Because they’re all gone. Now, I want players who could wind up as an elite option at a position in any given week, and that I feel I’ll have a chance to see it coming. I used to call this the “Never James White Rule". James White was a solid fantasy football player during his peak. From 2016-2019, White was the RB25 in PPG. But for those playing in standard-sized leagues, James White never had as much fantasy value as that ranking would lead you to believe. The reason being, he very rarely had 20-point games that could win you a week. It was just a consistent stream of 10-12-point games that added up over time. Now, compare that to a player like Khalil Herbert. Despite being a very efficient rusher, Herbert has had minimal standalone value throughout his three NFL seasons. But in each of those seasons, he’s had multiple big games. From 2021-2022, while David Montgomery was still in Chicago, Montgomery missed four games and left two others very early due to injury. In those six games, Khalil Herbert averaged 21.5 touches and 16.0 fantasy points. And last season when the Bears decided to make D’Onta Foreman a healthy scratch for the final three games of the season (Weeks 16-18), Herbert once again stepped in and averaged 18.3 touches and 15.4 PPG. Now, Herbert’s case may not be quite as black and white as the Alexander Mattison example I’ve used in the past, but there’s no denying most of his best games came in situations where we should have expected him to see increased usage. This is why I say rankings are just a loose guideline and in many ways their accuracy in the context of a full season doesn’t matter on a week-to-week basis. Some players to draft in later rounds this year using the "Never James White Rule," include Ty Chandler, Zach Charbonnet and Blake Corum. Aaron Jones turns 30 in December and is coming off a season in which he missed six games with hamstring and knee injuries. Chandler, meanwhile, averaged over 15 touches in his four starts at the end of last season and showed impressive upside with a 24-point game against the Bengals in Week 15. If Jones were to get injured again, Chandler instantly becomes a viable FLEX play. As for Charbonnet, in the three games that Kenneth Walker III missed last season, he averaged 19.7 touches along with a 77% snap rate. Given his three-down skill set, you can feel very confident in Charbonnet carrying the load in games where Walker doesn’t play. And finally, there’s Blake Corum. Everything from Rams camp thus far says they love the guy, and while I do believe Kyren Williams is still the clear lead back, he’s also missed at least five games in both of his NFL seasons. If Williams were to suffer another injury, Corum would immediately step into one of the most RB-friendly offenses in all of fantasy. As you are filling out your bench, you need to view it in the context of the quality of players available on the waiver wire. Now, don’t go wild. Drafting a high number of boom-or-bust players makes sense only if you know you can easily find viable production on the waiver wire during bye weeks or in case of injury. But the positive is that it won’t cost much draft-day capital for these upside types. They generally will be ranked much lower in pre-draft, season-long rankings than they will be ranked during the weeks when you know you’ll need to use them. That’s why I don’t want to reach for players like Chuba Hubbard – who is on a low-scoring offense and will likely lose his job to Jonathan Brooks before midseason -- when Tyler Allgeier comes cheaper despite being a Bijan Robinson injury away from becoming a must-start option. RELATED: RotoPat’s Boom/Bust Players in 2024 Habit 6: They are adaptable and trust themselves above all others Obviously, you should be watching, reading, and listening to as much as possible before you draft, and that means all August. Start with Fantasy Football Happy Hour on YouTube , Peacock and wherever you get podcasts ! This will help you have an opinion on every player. You don’t need to memorize every stat or break down every play, but just have a general sense of whether you are “pro” or “con” the player and what general value you give him. Because, as Mike Tyson likes to say, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The point is, you never know what to expect during a draft. There can be extreme runs and there can be drafters who have wildly different values than you, so players you didn’t expect to be available are there for the taking. And there may be someone drafting in front of you using your exact rankings they printed from NBCSports.com and laughing as they draft the player you wanted while commenting, “Hahaha do you LOVE this pick, Berry?!” That last one may be only specific to me. But highly effective drafters are the ones who don’t enter with a specific hard-and-fast strategy. By doing the work and being prepared, by mock drafting like it’s your job, by being flexible, you’ll be able to adapt on the fly and you won’t let your draft be dictated by anyone or anything, but you. Habit 7: They approach the draft as just the first step toward success Just because draft day is the most important day, that doesn’t mean it’s the only important day. You don’t have to win the league during your draft. In fact, it’s unlikely that you will. If your fantasy football season is a building under construction, then the draft is the foundation. If there’s a run on quarterbacks, instead of forcing it and reaching early for a guy in the tier below, grab another wide receiver. Give yourself some surplus so you have something to trade. Trust me, another lower-tier quarterback will still be there next round. And this goes with what I was talking about in terms of not sweating rankings or ADP too much and going for upside, because you’re likely dropping some of these guys on the way to glory anyway. Last year, Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua, Jordan Love and Rashee Rice were all waiver wire pickups. Trey McBride, another in-season add, was the TE3 since taking over as the starter in Week 8. Happens every year. And remember, sometimes a winning waiver pickup is someone you only need for a couple weeks. Zack Moss had only two games with double-digit fantasy points from Week 7 on, but the 20.7 PPG he averaged in Weeks 2-6 while filling in for Jonathan Taylor was likely enough to bank your fantasy team a couple extra wins early on. Your fantasy season will be a constant work in progress, so understand that as you construct your team on draft day it’s not just about acquiring players in the draft, and later via free agency and trade, but ultimately how you use them. In-season roster decision making will be crucial for you to get that championship. But that’s a story for “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective In-Season Managers.” 480 COMMENTS PDF 7 Habits of Highly Effective Researchers A good advisor is like a sherpa, guiding you up the mountain. They'll do everything they can to keep you safe, but the rest is up to you. Try to take it one day at a time, and focus on what you can do that day to bring you closer to your goal. 7. Taking care of yourself. Doing a PhD can push you into a dark place. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Researchers Here are 7 Habits that I see in Highly Effective Researchers. #1: Focusing on the question, not the methodology. 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