On a February 15, 2015 airing of Meet the Press, McDonald stated that 60 Veterans Affairs employees had been fired because of the VA’s wait time scandal. Later, he backtracked and clarified it was only eight employees that lost their jobs.[26]
On February 23, 2015, McDonald admitted he misspoke trying to engage a homeless veteran on January 30, 2015 about his serving in the U.S. Army Special Forces, a conversation that was recorded by a CBS television news crew accompanying him during a nationwide count of homeless veterans. “I have no excuse, I was not in the special forces” he told The Huffington Post, which first broke the story.[27] The Huffington Post reported that “special operations forces” includes the Army Rangers and that McDonald “completed Army Ranger training and took courses in jungle, arctic and desert warfare. He qualified as a senior parachutist and airborne jumpmaster, and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division until he resigned his commission in 1980. While he earned a Ranger tab designating him as a graduate of Ranger School, he never served in a Ranger battalion or any other special operations unit.[26]”
On May 13, 2016 Sec. McDonald was at the Leavenworth, Kansas VA for a Town Hall meeting. During the course of his visit, he stated that he has ‘lived and worked on seven continents.’ He then corrected that to ‘six’.
In 2007, McDonald received the inaugural Leadership Excellence Award from the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard Business Review. He serves on the Board of Directors of Xerox, the McKinsey Advisory Council, and the Singapore International Advisory Council of the Economic Development Board. McDonald has a son and a daughter, Rob and Jennifer. Jennifer currently works for American Express, and Rob is employed as lawyer.[28]
McDonald joined Procter & Gamble in 1980.[6] He served as a brand manager for Tide from 1984-1986. In 1989 he transferred to Toronto to lead P&G’s Canadian Laundry business, and moved to the Philippines as General Manager in 1991. In 1995 he became Vice President, Laundry & Cleaning Products Asia, and relocated to Japan. A year later in 1996, McDonald became President, Japan Operations, and in 1999, President, Northeast Asia. Two years later he moved to Brussels as President, Global Fabric Care and later President, Global Fabric & Home Care. He was appointed Vice Chairman, Global Operations in 2004 and appointed Chief Operating Officer in July 2007. McDonald became President and Chief Executive on July 1, 2009.[7] He assumed the Chairman of the Board role January 1, 2010. He retired from P&G on June 30, 2013.[8]
Under McDonald’s leadership, P&G grew organic sales by an average of about three percent per year with core earnings per share up an average of about four percent. P&G’s stock price rose from $51.10 to $78.80 during his tenure as CEO – over a fifty percent increase. The company’s market capitalization puts it among the top fifteen most valuable companies in the world. P&G also made significant strategic adjustments to its product portfolio. The Company acquired Ambi Pur and formed a joint venture with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which will enable P&G to expand its Consumer Health Care business. P&G also divested its remaining food business, Pringles, exited the pharmaceutical business, increased its focus on discontinuous innovation through the establishment of transformational platform technologies and a new business creation group, and initiated a five-year, $10 billion productivity program.[9]
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“He assumed the Chairman of the Board role January 1, 2010. He retired from P&G on June 30, 2013”
Retired in this case is a polite way of saying he was fired by the Board of Directors for poor performance and was put on the street with a big fat severance package. The company was a wreck and the board brought back McDonald’s predecessor, A.G. Laffley, to straighten the company out.
Apparently MacDonald’s management skills have not improved since Obama hired him to run the VA. His recent statement demonstrates he has the same arrogance as Mr. Obama.