To your right are stacks of internal documents announcing the new systems your organization wants you to put in place in the next six weeks. You got it. Because we can deal with the technology. Somewhere out there someone is developing a product or a fix to handle or even eliminate the problems presented by the technology we're implementing today. The hard part is dealing with the human element, not the technological one.
Resistance is the main reaction to change.
Consider it thumb sucking for grownups. Rethinking and Balancing the Human Equation Change saps an organization's energy in myriad ways. Most of these reactions to change are fairly predictable. If you told your management that you were going to migrate to a new integrated database system, they would not question the time you took in identifying technical specifications and interviewing vendors. You would not feel a moment's hesitation in taking the time to visit a colleague who has the system in place, or to run a pilot to ensure that the technology will work with your architecture.