Joel Dubin is an adult survivor of the corporate world and of eccentric parents.  He is a retired cybersecurity consultant who spent decades banging his head against the wall working with messed up companies around the world.  One day, after a stressful day – like every day – when he was about to throw a chair through a window, he had a sick thought.  There had to be a better way.  He noticed seven common traits of screwed up businesses and assembled them into a book, The 7 Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Companies, just in time as he was about to be carted away to an insane asylum.

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Then there were his crazy parents, the hosts of The Norman and Phyllis Show, which the producers forgot to cancel.  He always thought insanity was hereditary but learned in his goofy home the sense of humor to get through the even wackier corporate world.

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He is also a polyglot fluent in several languages, including gibberish, which enabled him to do business in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.  He is the author of another humor book, Yes Dear! A Husband’s Guide to Marriage based on his happy three-decades plus marriage to Sara Guralnick, and both editions of the not-humorous book, The Little Black Book of Computer Security.  He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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His lives in Chicago with his Sara, a children’s book author and jewelry designer, who keeps him sane.