Jason Hillenburg's Reviews > "I HEREBY RESIGN": Job Transitioning: How Individuals Properly Prepare, Resign and Move to the Competition, and How Companies Best Manage That Process

The title of Steven Manchel’s “I Hereby Resign”, taken in part, depicts the end of a process rather than the evolution leading to that crucial moment. The book’s full title “I Hereby Resign” Job Transitioning: How Individuals Properly Prepare, Resign and Move to the Competition, and How Companies Best Manage that Process is a far more encompassing, if unwieldy, encapsulation of Manchel’s aims for this slim volume. Manchel harnesses almost three decades of experiencing offering guidance to individuals on how they make a proper break with their current employer before moving on to new opportunities and how businesses can best navigate such a process. He outlines the book’s aims from the start – this is a book intended to facilitate transition. Such transitions beget a plethora of questions regarding approach and timing. It is to Manchel’s credit as an author and thinker he proves himself capable of exploring the topic with such thoroughness in a short book.

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His relaxed yet confident prose style helps clarify his ideas for any reading level. He gears the book towards professionals, it is seldom such considerations of approach enter the minds of a family restaurant dishwasher for example, but I Hereby Resign has universal application despite its target audience. Manchel’s book shows immense wisdom focusing on the psychological and legal ramifications that can result moving from one employer to the next, especially if the new employer is a direct competitor to the old one.

The relationship between employer and valued employee is not altogether unlike a long-term marriage or romantic relationship. Bungled separation can sanction one or both sides in the split to let fly a host of grievances, real and imagined, harbored under wraps over the course of many years. Bungled separations can breed, likewise, a plethora of new red-hot fears, accusations, and resentments forever fracturing once healthy and productive connections. Manchel’s book makes it clear it is possible to avoid these negative outcomes given the proper consideration and planning.

Manchel, a trained lawyer, brings a learned perspective to the associated legal issues that can arise. There is an abundance of regulations and statutes governing how former employees handle information about their past employer’s business – trade secrets, contractual information, and general data are often protected knowledge that legal obligations prohibit former employees from divulging. It is important for any employer to know and feel assured that the trusted former employee walking out the door would not betray those confidences in any measure. Manchel discusses addressing such matters with intelligence, thoughtfulness, and insight.

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The straightforward structuring of the book complements its conversational eloquence. “I Hereby Resign” unfolds in a coherent fashion for readers and stands as a book you can open to any spot in the text, begin reading, and glean useful information. He outlines “rules” individuals preparing to transition out of a company should follow and provides readers with dramatized examples of these directives in actual practice (or not, as the case may be). The concision and clarity at the heart of “I Hereby Resign” Job Transitioning: How Individuals Properly Prepare, Resign and Move to the Competition, and How Companies Best Manage that Process will make this book an indispensable and timeless reading experience for many.