Continuity Model Generation

Generational Meta-Framework

The Continuity Model Generation is future-focused, by definition. Consideration of the 12 dimensions of the generational meta-framework forces reflection on the circumstances that surround now and next generations. A central theme of this meta-framework is the understanding that what got you here won't get you where you want and need to be.

Four Ls Framework

If there's a standout framework in the 21 frameworks in this book, it would be the 4 Ls. This approach, first introduced by Professor Emeritus Ken Moores and Professor Mary Barrett, has been a mainstay of every family enterprise education program I have delivered in the past two decades. Students and participants in these programs, no matter their age, education, culture, or experience, have responded more to this framework than any other. As such, it has also driven the framework approach shared in this book. Like many of the other frameworks, because it is simple and easy to draw, the four Ls framework is easy to digest and share. Importantly, it is theory-driven and evidence-based. The research on which the framework is based is 280 pages long. The chapter on it in a previous book, written by Moores and me (Craig and Moores 2017), is 30 pages long. But, for the sake of this book's approach, I'll share the main components of the framework in a few hundred words. Here goes.

Two theoretical perspectives drive the four Ls framework: the life cycle of the individual and learning theory. But ...