If you worked at the pace required for the organization to "get it" each step of the way nothing would get done and you would have no evidence of success.
^ This is true to at least some degree IMO. Now on to you:
Can you find a way to be the 5x engineer who also communicates what the organization needs to know each step of the way? This means written and verbal communication, ahead of others having to ask for it.
In this way, you build a trail of documents that can be referenced as those who don't get it can be linked to along the way.
Back to the nature of IT: I see a lot of folks in positions of authority who are willing to drag the organization down into their slow pace by not really understanding what the hell is going on and dictating. (his doesn't sound like you but this person is in a position of authority wherever you are working)