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Clarity Driven

Clarity Driven: How To Get It Right When You Can't Know It All

Clarity Driven

How To Get It Right When You Can't Know It All

Jonathan Cozens  ·  January 2025  ·  Daisa Designs  ·  ISBN 9781915200723

Most business owners are running hard and making decisions fast — but without the clarity to know whether those decisions are actually moving them in the right direction. This book is about building that clarity. Not as an abstract concept, but as a practical discipline that changes how you see your business, how you use the information you already have, and how you make the decisions that matter.

Drawing on 10 years of working with founder-led and board-led businesses, Jonathan Cozens shows why the gap between where most businesses are and what they're genuinely capable of is almost never a talent gap — and exactly what it takes to close it.

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Series · Five books
The Four Hats Principle
Complete Series
  • 01
    The Four Hats Principle
    Why every healthy business needs four different voices — even if only one person is speaking
    Every business has four fundamentally different voices that need to be heard: the Innovator, the Business Leader, the Evangelist, and the Owner. Most businesses let one dominate and wonder why growth feels so hard. This book names the four, explains what each one cares about, and shows why all four are essential — whether they belong to different people or all live in the same head.
  • 02
    When the Hats Stop Fitting
    The Four Hats Principle at scale — what happens when growth buries the catalysts that created it
    For leaders of larger businesses who sense something important has been lost in the process of becoming successful. As businesses grow, the four catalysts get diluted, distanced from decisions, and replaced by job titles. This book examines how that happens, why it matters, and what large businesses can do to bring the right voices back to the table.
  • 03
    Putting the Hats to Work
    How the right decision-making foundation makes 3x growth in 3 years achievable
    The action book of the series. A 3x in 3 years north star goal, paired with the right management data, transforms the four-hat framework from theory into a navigable plan. This book shows why that specific ambition forces the right conversations — and exactly how to build the architecture that makes it achievable.
  • 04
    So What Are You Waiting For?
    A personal note for anyone who has read this far and hasn't moved yet
    A direct personal letter from Jonathan. You've read the framework. You know which catalyst is missing. You've thought about what your business could become at 3x. And you haven't acted yet. This short, honest personal note addresses the gap between understanding and doing — because that gap has a shelf life.
  • 05
    Hats Lost and Found
    What a founder needs to believe about his business before he can leave it
    The closing book of the series, and the only one told entirely as a story. Marcus is sixty-one, planning a management buyout, and sitting in his own boardroom as a guest — watching a capable leadership team reach a defensible decision with something essential missing from the room. What brings it back is not a restructuring, a committee, or an exercise in nostalgia, but a two-minute practice that costs nothing and changes what gets asked. For founders approaching succession, and for the teams who will inherit what they built.

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Series · Two books
Running Flat Out
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  • 01
    Running Flat Out to Stand Still
    Why your business plan won't survive first contact with reality — and the framework that finally breaks the cycle
    For founders who have survived the launch and found themselves without a working map. When the original plan becomes irrelevant, every decision has to be made fresh — accumulating what this book calls "decision debt." The result is a business that looks healthy on the surface but has no coherent direction. This book identifies the trap and shows the way out.
  • 02
    Running Flat Out to Success
    Why success can be just as dangerous as failure — and why the businesses that grow the fastest are often the least prepared for what comes next
    For established founders whose growth has stalled and who can't work out why. Richard built an eight-million-pound business — and then watched it stop growing for three years without understanding what had changed. This book examines the specific and largely invisible trap that successful founder-led businesses fall into, and what it takes to escape it.

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The Risk You're Already Taking
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    The Risk You're Already Taking
    Why staying still is the most dangerous move your business can make
    For business owners who know something needs to change but aren't sure the cure isn't worse than the disease. The risks of growing are visible. The risks of not growing are invisible — but that doesn't make them smaller. Through the stories of Claire and Tom, this guide makes the hidden costs of standing still impossible to ignore, and reframes the growth decision entirely.

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The Roads You Haven't Taken
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    The Roads You Haven't Taken
    The strategic choices your business has never properly examined
    Most business owners are so focused on the path they're on that they never properly examine the ones they aren't. This guide challenges leaders to look honestly at the strategic options their business has never pursued — not out of regret, but because understanding the roads not taken is often the clearest way to understand where you actually want to go.

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