Maggie Wilderotter, former CEO of Frontier Communications and a former senior executive at both Microsoft and AT&T, remembers the day that her mother called her at work to report that her husband, Jay, was up on the roof with their 14-month-old son.
As she recounted at the recent Wharton Leadership Conference, she called her husband in a panic. He answered from a portable phone (this being the days before everyone had cell phones) and confirmed it was true.
