Is Progress Moving Faster Than You Can Pivot

By Andrew Bloo, Founder, HITSLeadership™

For the first time in history, the job you’re applying for—the one that will take weeks to hear back from and possibly months to start—might be obsoleted by AI before you even complete onboarding.

This isn’t speculation. It’s our new reality. More than at any other time in recent generations, the pace of progress is outrunning our ability to pivot.

Last week I had the privilege of attending a Northwest Lineman College (NWLC) graduation in Boise. The room was filled with wide-eyed future linemen, full of energy and ready to step into one of the most vital trades we have. Then the keynote speakers from Quanta Services—Loren Chandler and Karl Studer—stood up and laid out the future of power distribution in stark terms.

They described a challenge that still has me thinking: the industry must double in the next 10 years what it took 100 years to build in the first place.

Sitting there, I couldn’t help but run the numbers in my head. If power distribution and generation now demands something close to a 10X productivity multiplier just to keep up with demand, what kind of multipliers are other industries going to require? And perhaps more urgently, which industries are going to disappear—or be transformed beyond recognition—at an even faster pace?

History has always been unkind to the brave pioneers of progress who suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the curve. VCR Manufacturers, Blackberry users, the film developers at Kodak—they all discovered that yesterday’s breakthrough becomes tomorrow’s footnote when the world accelerates.

This is exactly why I built the HITSLeadership™ framework.

True leadership in exponential times isn’t about predicting every disruption. It’s about getting your hands dirty—kneeling down, observing the roots, and building regenerative systems that can adapt as fast as the world changes. It’s about creating clarity from complexity, presence in the middle of chaos, and sustainable growth that doesn’t burn out the people doing the work.

The linemen graduating that day represent something powerful: hands-on, grounded work that will remain essential even as technology reshapes everything around it. Yet even they will face new tools, new materials, and new methods that demand continuous adaptation. The same principle applies to every leader, every team, and every organization—whether you’re in energy, tech, healthcare, creative services, or small business.

At HITSLeadership™ we don’t sell hype. We give leaders a practical 8-step cycle that blends Lean efficiency, Agile adaptability, and Servant heart with regenerative principles—so you can stop reacting to symptoms and start nurturing what actually grows.

The pace will not slow down. The multipliers will only get larger. The industries that vanish will be the ones whose leaders waited too long to pivot.

The invitation is simple, but it’s not easy: get your hands in the soil. Build what lasts. Lead regeneratively in a world that rewards speed.

What 10X shift is your industry facing right now? How are you preparing yourself and your team to stay on the right side of the curve?

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Andrew Bloo Founder, HITSLeadership™ Author of A Field Guide: Hands in the Soil Leadership™ for a Dynamic World