New chair gets filled on Ford's board

Ford Motor Company has added some manufacturing and dealer know-how to the company's board of directors with the addition of Caterpillar Inc. group president Gerald Shaheen. Gerald's expertise also branches out to the UAW, where he got major concessions for Caterpillar in 2005. Besides Shaheen's jobs at Caterpillar and Ford, the man also stays busy with seats on the boards of National City Corp., U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Chamber Foundation and the Mineral Information Institute Inc., Association of Equipment Manufacturers, and AGCO Corp. Wow, either Gerald is the smartest, most hard-working guy on earth, or his main job is so easy that he has time to sit on all these other boards. How in the world does someone make time to correctly do all these important jobs?

[Source: Detroit News]