A top-down approach to leadership growth begins with a measurable, results-based definition of leadership success. The definition is based on the assumpion that businesses exist to deliver economic rerurns of their owners, and as such, the true measure of leadership performance is sustained is sustained business resulth. This is a very defferent perpective from many of today's competency-based approaches that define success as competency assessment results. This results-based human capital approach makes leadership performance primany and views competencies as enablers of those results.