This article mentions a Jeff Bezos' big mandate with six points. For an insight on the "slowness", note that we are looking at only a technical strategy, a part of something bigger related to a particular enterprise. I have seen very similar technical mandates in many large enterprises and this is not a full picture to move on. The ability to move rapidly enough comes not from having this mandate over another. I don't know the inner workings at Amazon, but if this is a technical mandate for the enterprise, the glory of Jeff Bezos is that he has a personal vision and ability to execute and orchestrate it across business units and acquisitions, have in place the right team who understand it to move forward with it. Not many organizations have the right leadership to actually implement a technical strategy like the one, that's the truth. This is an issue that I have been seeing too often unfortunately.