Good architecture is leadership based on transparent principles.
The hardest thing for a lot of people to hear is, "you're not wrong, but the thing you're thinking about isn't the essential one." Architecture is about finding the principles and axioms that apply to the situation. It also requires an ability to "let go," in that if your design is good enough, you are no longer personally necessary because the rest has been made obvious, and anyone can implement it.
Elegant thinking can seem obvious, and transmits a great deal of understanding simply. The purpose of architecture is to formulate something that benefits in scale to the efforts of multiple cheaper, less experienced people.
The hardest thing for a lot of people to hear is, "you're not wrong, but the thing you're thinking about isn't the essential one." Architecture is about finding the principles and axioms that apply to the situation. It also requires an ability to "let go," in that if your design is good enough, you are no longer personally necessary because the rest has been made obvious, and anyone can implement it.
Elegant thinking can seem obvious, and transmits a great deal of understanding simply. The purpose of architecture is to formulate something that benefits in scale to the efforts of multiple cheaper, less experienced people.