It's this mythic "thing" that everyone is striving for: personal transformation (physical, mental, and spiritual), strategic business transformation (evolution, renewal), or it can be something experienced, like the transformative power of rock 'n' roll.
Old strategies become obsolete and new ones are called for.The finance industry is in the midst of a transformative period of evolution, and financial economists have a huge agenda to tackle.
And I think it's a transformative moment in the evolution of America — a multicultural, multiracial experiment in democracy that has a president that reflects its future.
Two years ago, Andrew Watson, at the University of East Anglia, made a mathematical model of what he thought were the four transformative steps in the evolution of Homo sapiens: the emergence of bacteria, complex cells, specialized cells (permitting multicellular life), and eventually intelligent creatures with language.
Fans of the show get a dreamy expression when asked about Simon: his character's evolution was a transformative TV experience.
Transforming misconceptions: using transformative experience to promote positive affect and conceptual change in students' learning about biological evolution.
In the long run evolution can be equally transformative, and more so.
High throughput sequencing is beginning to make a transformative impact in the area of viral evolution.
The origin of multicellularity was transformative for life on earth, allowing for the evolution of the large, complex organisms we see today.
Few scientific theories have had as transformative and widespread impact on their respective fields as has evolution.
