What is Wrong with Organizations That Cannot Delegate Authority?

According to Amazon's 2025 shareholder letter released on April 9, 2026, six skilled engineers used AI coding tools to complete a new inference engine in 76 days. Amazon stated that this task was assigned to a small team separate from the organization operating existing services. In the same letter, CEO Andy Jassy explained that over the past year, the company worked on flattening the organization and expressed satisfaction with the improvements in decision-making and execution speed. This is Amazon's internal report, and it is not evidence that the same results will be reproduced if headcounts are reduced or authority is transferred. Based solely on the public disclosures, individual approval procedures or control methods cannot be verified. However, this case leaves an important question for management: even after securing technology and professional talent, if every choice must wait f…