Kerry Huang

Fortune Global 500 Executive · Top 1% Researcher · Original namer of AwaCourage

See Clearly.
Still Dare.

Under pressure, reality becomes harder to see —
and harder truths become easier to avoid.

Fortune Global 500
Global SCM AVP
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Top 1% Cited
Clarivate ESI
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Forbes
Business Council
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DBA
Hong Kong PolyU
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7 Continents
90+ Countries
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35 Years
10,000+ Journal Entries

AwaCourage /aʊr-ˈkʌr-ɪdʒ/

The ability to see reality clearly and act before fear delays you.

Pronounced: Our Courage — because it was never meant to be mine alone.

Awareness Seeing what is actually there — not what fear or habit tells you to see
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Courage Acting on what you see — even when the cost is real and the outcome uncertain

One question. Three conversations.

Global Readers

You know what you should do. Something stops you. AwaCourage names that gap — and gives you a way through it.

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Executives & Leaders

Every strategy is a 6-ER trade-off — whether you see it or not. The 6-ER Framework makes the invisible visible before it becomes a crisis.

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Publishers & Media

Fortune Global 500 AVP · Top 1% Cited Scholar · Forbes Contributor · DBA Hong Kong PolyU · Seven continents · 90+ countries.

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Four disciplines. Two scales. One architecture.

Organizations do not make decisions — people do.
Repeated human decisions become culture, systems, and outcomes.

AwaCourage addresses the quality of the decision-maker.
6-ER addresses the quality of decisions at scale.

Recent Writing

Forbes Business Council The Cost Trap: Why Efficiency Programs Often Destroy Competitive Moats Forbes Business Council The 6-ER Framework: Why Cheaper, Faster, Better Won't Save Supply Chains in 2026 Forbes Business Council The Technology Trap: Why Digital Transformation Often Fails to Build Competitive Moats Foundational What Pressure Does Library 100 Books in Resonance with AwaCourage Essay What an Emperor Wrote to Himself at Midnight: Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and AwaCourage Essay What Confucius Knew 2,500 Years Ago: 中庸, AwaCourage, and the Strong Reading of Persistence Essay What Arjuna Knew 3,000 Years Ago: The Gita, AwaCourage, and the Cost of Clarity
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In Preparation

Books in Preparation

TSMC: How Constraints Build Competitive Moats

How TSMC turned constraints into competitive advantage.

A multi-volume series examining governance under existential pressure. Subsequent volumes will be announced as each enters final preparation.

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The Harpy Eagle

Native to the Colombian rainforests — the same territory the Awá people have defended for five hundred years. The bird, the tribe, and the word share the same soil.

Harpy sounds like Happy. A bird whose name carries joy — and whose life embodies the harder, deeper kind.

It holds still for hours. It reads the environment. It waits for the moment truly worth moving for. Then it acts — completely, without hesitation, without retreat. Awareness without impulsiveness. Courage without recklessness. This is AwaCourage.

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AwaCourage logo, Harpy Eagle symbol