"Instead of relying on the advice of outside experts, organizations should place greater value in the advice that can come only from their own highly experienced employees."
The issue is whether organizations should place greater value on the advice only from their own highly experienced employees rather than on the advice of outside experts. For the following reasons, I strongly disagree with the company they work for.
First of all, although the employees can be just as capable as the outside experts, what they lack is objectivity. Just as an author is not very capable of reviewing his/her own works, he/she needs independent outside editors to review the works impartially. If the situation involved the opinion of inexperienced outside people against the opinion of the employees, of course, the outside opinion should be discounted. However, as experts, they should be just as technically knowledgeable as the employees of the particular organization should. Presumably, the experts have studied the particular industry or organization and are able to comment on facts or figures objectively.
In addition, employees are attached to the company they work for and are less able than experts to view current company prospects effectively. For example, if a company is doing its share as the dominant industry leader, its employees are unwilling to believe the news and/or try to put a good spin on the bad news. Their jobs and livelihood are at stake if the company is losing money; therefore, they cannot see the complete picture as clearly as an outside expert who gives advice based on the facts.
In conclusion, independent experts are more capable of giving more realistic advice, whether good or bad in nature, than employees can, since employees tend to be optimists. Besides, most employees are not very effective in looking at the plain facts and figure; they bring biases and emotions into the picture.
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