Bob McDonald Visit Re-Cap To Ukraine For Its VA Best Practices
Monday morning I was up at 5:30 a.m. in my hotel room in the Hyatt Regency Kyiv in Ukraine. I exercised in the hotel fitness center and cleaned up. I met my host John Boestler, CEO of Combined Arms, at 8:30 a.m. We were driven to the veterans hospital Lisova Polyana in the Obolonsky district […]
The Leadership Potential of War Veterans
Bob McDonald was recently interviewed by UATV during his visit to Ukraine to talk more about how the year-old The Ministry for Veterans Affairs can model itself after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. McDonald who is the former CEO of Procter & Gamble, and, the eighth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs shared insight […]
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