This article looks at high-performing education systems in Asia through the lens of leadership and lead-ership development. It proposes that the top-performing education systems systematically build the leadershipcapacity for improvement and that this is part of animplementation science geared to maximizing perfor-mance. Drawing upon initial findings from a cross-national comparative study (The 7 System Leadership Study isfunded by the University of Malaya and involves Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Russia, England and Australia.), the article focuses upon two high-performing systems in Asia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The article concludes by arguing that the top performing systems inAsia, as determined by international comparative data, notonly create the leadership capacity to consistently outper-form others but also invest in an implementation science that defines, delineates and ultimately, determines excep-tional performance

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• High-Performing Education Systems in Asia: Leadership Artmeets Implementation Science