The largest functioning team I have found in business is the Board of Directors of Standard Oil.

我在企业界见过最大的职能性团队是标准石油公司的董事会。

It is a Board composed exclusively of full-time officers of the company, and it is actually the top management of one of the world's largest, most extensive, most complicated and most successful businesses.

董事会完全由公司全职主管组成，是全世界规模最大、最复杂、也最成功的企业管理团队。

Hence its membership of fourteen does not seem excessive.

14位董事会成员似乎不算太多。

Still, a team so large can function only if it rigidly disciplines itself.

但是，只有靠最严谨的纪律，这么大的团队才能运作顺畅。

The Standard Oil Board, for instance, never takes any decision except unanimously.

举例来说，标准石油公司的董事会讨论问题时，必须全体无异议通过，才会成为决议。

REFERENCE:

functioning team 职能性团队

business 企业界

Board of Directors 董事会

Standard Oil 标准石油公司

be composed of 由…组成

exclusively 完全

full-time 全职的

top management 高层

extensive 广阔的

complicated 复杂的

hence 因此

membership 成员

excessive 过多的

function 运作顺畅

rigidly 严谨

discipline 纪律

for instance 举例来说

unanimously 全体无异议

本文内容来源参考书籍《管理的实践》

The Practice of Management

Peter F. Drucker

* 本书为第一部从实际执行层面立论的管理学书籍，第一部兼顾管理现有企业和创新未来企业的著作

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