One of Bezos' best attributes was (is? no idea) knowing that he was not the best individual to make most of the decisions for Amazon. He had strong ideas about

One of Bezos' best attributes was (is? no idea) knowing that he was not the best individual to make most of the decisions for Amazon. He had strong ideas about how to hire people, how to create "meta-strategies" and then let the people who he believed actually knew stuff make the choices. So actually, even within Amazon, he almost certainly was not the best person to make almost any of the decisions the company faced. You final sentence is precisely on point, IMO.