摘要：This may have been achieved in the form of the "inside" Board, that is, one composed exclusively of executive management men who m

In reality the Board as conceived by the lawmaker is at best a tired fiction.

而在现实世界里，董事会在立法者眼中充其量只是陈腐的假象罢了，

It is perhaps not too much to say that it has become a shadow king.

甚至称之为“影子国王”也不为过。

In most of the large companies, it has in effect been deposed and its place taken by executive management.

在大多数的大企业中，董事会成效不彰，管理团队早已取代了它的地位。

This may have been achieved in the form of the "inside" Board, that is, one composed exclusively of executive management men who meet the first Monday in every month to supervise and to approve what they themselves have been doing the other twenty-nine days of the month.

“内部”董事可能是重要原因，也就是说，董事会完全由管理团队成员组成，他们在每个月的第一个星期一开会，监督和核准自己在每月其余29天所做的事情。

来源：修洁教育