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Today's CEO Spouses Speak Out.
The typical CEO spouse once came straight from central casting--a nonworking mom who hosted corporate gatherings and supported her husband's career at every turn. Any today? She--or he--is just as likely to be a successful professional in her or his own right. CE talked to 12 husbands and wives about the evolving role--and the reality us. the perception of life as a CEO spouse.
The scene was Christmas four years past at the North Stamford Wendt manse--the must-be-seen-at holiday gathering for Connecticut's corporate elite. Epernay champagne flowed; sturgeon from the Caspian sea had surrendered their eggs for the caviar, and the salmon was flown in fresh from Scotland. Men outfitted in black tie and women in classic velvet and silk gowns mingled, chatting amiably about raising kids, vacation plans, and recent golfing triumphs. Through this stage set-like corporate gathering wafted the hostess, wife of the then-CEO of GE Capital. Flawlessly turned out from head to toe, Lorna Wendt smiled graciously as she welcomed her guests. Nothing in her voice or manner during the evening betrayed the fact that five days earlier she'd been told by her husband Gary that, as she would later put it, she was "being fired as the CEO of the Wendt family." But after the dust settled, Lorna put the political skills she'd picked up during 32 years of playing the perfect corporate wife toward a different purpose-- namely making an issue of just how big a role...See the full content of this document
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