FORM MEETS DYSFUNCTION

The first “brand voice” guideline included “sound confident even when wrong.” So… modern marketing.

✗ FAKE
Brand voice guidelines are real documents that describe how a company communicates. No first guideline is documented, and none famously told writers to sound confident even when wrong.

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