Personally, I find the 'directing work' only works for the maybe this is a spoiler...........
Other than that, he's good for teaching kids, but that is only once per 24 hours. The food is good, if you are really struggling, have the cheif make food, pause game for 24 hours, have him make food again, etc, until you have enough to keep the tribe going for a bit. You can also pause, train kids, pause again. which is helpful when the tribe is big so you don't have so many slackers to train later
