Torchinsky Executive Insights

The Other Side. The Selection. Part 3.

A corporate interview is a process you can prepare for. A meeting with the owner is something else entirely — and the things that got you hired before are exactly what will lose you the job now. The Other Side, Episode 3 of Different Rules: what owners actually evaluate, and the five mistakes that sink strong candidates.

The Price of an Offer

Eighty-five percent of more than a thousand respondents chose to pay a consultant ten thousand dollars for a result over five hundred dollars upfront with no guarantees. It looks like financial literacy — until you run the arithmetic. In this episode, Mike Torchinsky unpacks what the poll actually measured: not preferences about payment, but anxiety, mistrust, and an unspoken request candidates rarely put into words.

The Other Side. The Search. Part 2.

You updated your LinkedIn, sent your CV to the recruiters you know, answered a few postings. And nothing's happening. The problem isn't you, and it isn't the market — it's that you're searching for a job, when what you actually need to find is an owner. This episode is about where executive roles in private business really live, and why most of them stay invisible until you're already inside the right circle.

THE OTHER SIDE Episode 1: The Idea

Half of my conversations with corporate executives end the same way: "I've been thinking about going private." Most of them aren't ready. This is The Other Side — an 8-episode series covering every stage of the transition from corporate to private business. Episode 1 is about the very beginning: figuring out if the idea is real, what's actually driving it, and what you're putting on the line before you take a single step.

87% Don't Care (And They Have the Best Jobs on Earth)

Europe has the best working conditions in the world — and the least engaged workforce on earth. Gallup puts it at thirteen percent. Eighty-seven percent of European workers feel nothing about their jobs. They're not miserable. They're not lazy. They just don't care. This episode looks at why the system that was built to protect workers might be the very thing that killed their motivation.