Joel Dubin
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Joel Dubin is a retired cybersecurity consultant turned humor author and foreign languages enthusiast. He is an adult survivor of eccentric parents and the even more eccentric corporate world. Along the way, he and his wife have had to take care of seven elderly family members over the years.
His latest book, Heaven Isn't On Schedule, is part memoir and part a how-to guide on elder care. The book iincludes how he cared for his eccentric parents, Norman and Phyllis, in their old age and how their wit and humor before their passing inspired his prior book, The Norman and Phyllis Show. The Norman and Phyllis Show is a memoir about his crazy parents and their misadventures around town. Phyllis couldn't cook, so they had to go to restaurants where they were the uncrowned royalty of the Chicago restaurant scene, where Norman taught Yiddish to Mexican waiters and Phyllis talked about how soup gave her gas. Their hilarious antics while he was growing up inspired the book. |
The 7 Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Companies was inspired by stupidity he observed at companies who sabotage not only their security but their business, as well.
The 7 Habits are the most common problems he saw at screwed up companies around the world. This isn’t a typical business book. It’s a humor book poking fun at office politics, bureaucracy and toxic work environments, all ingredients of successful dysfunctional companies. It’s sort of an anti-manual of how not to run a business.
Joel Dubin is also a polyglot fluent in several languages. This gave him unique access and insights into to the inner workings of companies in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. He came to conclude that dysfunctional companies, no matter where they’re located – or what language they speak – are all screwed up.
His first humor book, Yes Dear! A Husband’s Guide to Marriage, is inspired by his thirty plus years of marriage to Sara Guralnick, a children’s book author and jewelry designer. The book is based on the most important principle he discovered about marriage: Happy Wife, Happy Life.
Dubin is the author of both editions of The Little Black Book of Computer Security and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
The 7 Habits are the most common problems he saw at screwed up companies around the world. This isn’t a typical business book. It’s a humor book poking fun at office politics, bureaucracy and toxic work environments, all ingredients of successful dysfunctional companies. It’s sort of an anti-manual of how not to run a business.
Joel Dubin is also a polyglot fluent in several languages. This gave him unique access and insights into to the inner workings of companies in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. He came to conclude that dysfunctional companies, no matter where they’re located – or what language they speak – are all screwed up.
His first humor book, Yes Dear! A Husband’s Guide to Marriage, is inspired by his thirty plus years of marriage to Sara Guralnick, a children’s book author and jewelry designer. The book is based on the most important principle he discovered about marriage: Happy Wife, Happy Life.
Dubin is the author of both editions of The Little Black Book of Computer Security and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
The Norman and Phyllis Show
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Humor and Memoir
Norman and Phyllis were my parents and, well, they were crazy. Growing up with them was like being on The Norman and Phyllis Show, a bad sitcom the producers forgot to cancel. They were the uncrowned royalty of the Chicago restaurant scene, where Norman taught Mexican waiters broken Yiddish and was a member of The Golden Tipper’s Club. They had to go to restaurants. Phyllis was a terrible cook. Between Norman telling Barack Obama during a campaign stop in Chicago that he had seen him naked in a health club locker room, and Phyllis talking incessantly about her bowel movements, there was no way I could have turned out normal. Phyllis stocked the fridge with enough prune juice for a nuclear war, but I needed something stiffer to survive. After talking to medical specialists, I learned that insanity is, in fact, hereditary. For years, I thought the job of parents was to embarrass their kids in public. Then I went into therapy and learned otherwise. It was called love. It was still hard work raising my parents. But I think they turned out alright. This is their story. The story of The Norman and Phyllis Show. 
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The 7 Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Companies
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Business Humor
The 7 Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Companies was inspired by stupidity he observed at companies who sabotage their own business. The 7 Habits are the most common problems at screwed up companies around the world. This isn’t a typical business book. It’s a humor book poking fun at office politics, bureaucracy and toxic work environments, all ingredients of successful dysfunctional companies. It’s sort of an anti-manual of how not to run a business. 
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Yes Dear! A Husband's Guide to Marriage
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Marriage Humor
This book is a light-hearted look at marriage - from the husband's perspective. The husband may think he's in charge. This book reminds him who really is the boss, and who really runs the house. From the pre-marital training camp, which whips the love-struck husband-to-be into shape before the marriage through shopping adventures and daily chores, the husband will learn how to navigate a marriage and keep his wife's closets full of clothes and shoes. Full of useful tips, including where to put everything in her house (it's her house, not his) with lots of laughs along the way. Marital life will never be the same as the book highlights the five pillars of marriage and, of course, the most important thing: Keep the Wife Happy. 
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Heaven Isn't On Schedule: Elder Care For Mere Mortals
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Family, Parents, Elder Care
My wife and I have taken care of seven elderly family members, including our parents, over the years. We never had kids and never had to change diapers for little ones. Instead, we ended up changing diapers for big ones – our elderly parents. We’re not elder care professionals. We learned everything on our own from working with estate lawyers, nursing homes, and then funeral directors. We hope you will learn from our personal experience about the three pillars of elder care – legal documents, living arrangements and eternity planning. We’ve had our challenges – the caregiver who ran an escort service, the parent who signed her will on her deathbed, dealing with dementia and belligerent behavior and then, once, arranging two funerals two weeks apart. You will learn in this little guide the importance of planning for old age for your family and yourself. Enjoy your life but be prepared for the inevitable. Heaven isn’t on schedule. 
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