The Transformation Economy

Guiding Customers to Achieve Their Aspirations

De: B. Joseph Pine II

Narrado por: Mike Lenz, B. Joseph Pine II

A new fundamental economic shift is emerging: an economy based on transformative experiences that guide people to change, achieve their aspirations, and become who they want to be.

Welcome to the Transformation Economy. Creating transformative experiences offers businesses the largest opportunity for creating economic value today, particularly as goods and services become increasingly commoditized. Enterprises can create no greater value than to help customers achieve their aspirations—whether improving health, increasing wealth, developing wisdom, or finding purpose. These aspirations speak to our customers' greatest desires, their dreams, and their conceptions of who they are and who they strive to be.

Bestselling author B. Joseph Pine II builds on his iconic work on the Experience Economy to explain what this new shift means for companies looking to stand out and gain competitive advantage. Using examples from organizations across industries, Pine provides proven frameworks for organizations to design, create, and guide transformation offerings that help customers reach their greatest aspirations.

This audiobook includes a bonus afterword not included in the print edition.

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©2026 B. Joseph Pine II (P)2026 Ascent Audio

I was EX, now I’m WHY

I wish I’d read The Experience Economy when it was published in 1999. I’m grateful AF to have read The Transformation Economy today. Joe’s written another prescient, powerful, and practicable primer for fellow guides and seekers on the hero’s journey of human transformation. Fantastic frameworks, inspiring and insightful stories, and a book packed with deep, shared wisdom.

Human flourishing is treated not as a byproduct of business, but its purpose

The Transformation Economy delivers on the long-awaited promise and follow-up to The Experience Economy. Pine shows why guiding outcomes and identity change, not staging experiences, is the next frontier of value and the path to human flourishing.