Practising ResponsibilityA Practice Companion to The Art and Craft of Governance and Leadership Practising Responsibility is a reflective, practice-facing work that explores how responsibility is actually encountered, carried, avoided, and sustained within organisational life. Written for serious practitioners, educators, and postgraduate readers, the book stays close to lived experience rather than offering frameworks, techniques, or prescriptive guidance. The text attends to responsibility as a relational and situational condition rather than a formal attribute of role or authority. It explores moments where responsibility is felt before it is named; where judgement must be exercised under constraint; where authority, power, and legitimacy fall out of alignment; and where accountability mechanisms bring closure while responsibility continues to unfold. Structured around short chapters and interludes, the book moves deliberately between reflective exposition and recognisable organisational moments. These interludes are not case studies or examples to be analysed, but points of contact where responsibility becomes perceptible through hesitation, silence, displacement, and consequence. Throughout, the emphasis remains on judgement, proportion, and attentiveness rather than resolution. Practising Responsibility is designed to stand alone, while also sitting alongside the five-volume anthology The Art and Craft of Governance and Leadership, to which it serves as a practice companion. Readers are not required to engage with the wider body of work in order to use this book, though those who do will find its themes situated within a broader historical, ethical, and systemic inquiry. The book is suitable for advanced professional practice, executive education, and postgraduate study, particularly in contexts concerned with governance, regulation, leadership, ethics, and organisational decision-making. It is not intended to produce agreement or deliver method. Its purpose is to support reflective judgement where responsibility is already being carried, often quietly, and under conditions that are rarely ideal.