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List of Illustrations
Illustration 4: Resource-Based View
Illustration 5: Principal Cost
Illustration 6: Two Complementary Logics
Illustration 7: Fully Developed Three Circles Framework
Illustration 8: The Big Tent Approach
Illustration 9: RIPCC Framework
Illustration 10: The Four Ps Framework
Illustration 11: The Four Cs Framework
Illustration 12: Servant Leadership Framework
Illustration 13: The Four Tests Framework
Illustration 14: Four Leadership Priorities
Illustration 15: Four Exit Strategies Framework
Illustration 16: The Four Ls Framework
Illustration 17: Four Ownership Stages
Illustration 18: Four Entrepreneurship Principles
Illustration 19: Family Heterogeneity Frameworks
Illustration 20: Four Rs Framework
Illustration 21: Four Strategy Dimensions Framework
Illustration 22: Four Trust Dimensions
Illustration 23: Five-Stage Life Cycle Framework
Illustration 24: Church and State Framework
Illustration 25: Four Innovation Capabilities Framework
Illustration 26: Three-Step Approach Plan for the Strategic Plan
Illustration 27: Three-Step Approach Plan for the Successors' Talent Development Plan
Illustration 28: Three-Step Approach Plan for the Asset, Wealth, And Estate Plan
Illustration 29: Three-Step Approach Plan for the Governance Plan
List of Illustrated Tables
Illustrated Table 1: Populating the Four Perspectives Using the Frameworks
Illustrated Table 2: Populating the Four Development Categories Using the Frameworks
Illustrated Table 3: Populating the Asset, Wealth, and Estate Categories Using the Frameworks
Illustrated Table 4: Populating the Four Governance Categories Using the Frameworks
List of Configuration Plans
Configuration Plan One
Configuration Plan Two
Configuration Plan Three
Configuration Plan Four
Acknowledgments and Appreciation
First, I respectfully acknowledge the family of business-owning families worldwide who have taught and inspired me, and countless contemporaries, through their commitment to establishing models that ensure future generations continue to make significant social and economic impacts. Thanks for allowing me to stalk you!
Second, to those whose thinking, testing, pivoting, and retesting have contributed to my ability to interpret and share the 21 frameworks and bring them together as the Continuity Canvas. I am fortunate to have worked closely with several of the family enterprise field's pioneers over the past two decades. Notable amongst these are my two main mentors (and mates), Professors Emeriti Ken Moores and John Ward. These two gentle men
