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Every element in your identity either traces to a decision about your company or it traces to a mood board. The question stays open until you need a surface that was never scoped.
Then it gets built by copying the closest thing that already exists, and every step in that chain looks reasonable on its own. That is how a brand drifts without a decision behind it.
The "looks reasonable on its own" part is the trap, nobody signs off on brand drift, it just accumulates one unscoped surface at a time until someone finally audits the whole system.
This is such a sharp framing of brand drift. The unscripted surfaces are usually where the hidden strategy gaps become visible.
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