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# The Books

Two books for the same reader. *The River Doesn't Wait* is about the work inside an organization. *Meet Them on the Water* is about how that organization meets its market.

The Method The River Group works with clients was published before any client needed it, which is the point of publishing it. *The River Doesn't Wait* sets it out in full: the choice every organization is making between running its existing work faster and changing what the work is, where that choice actually gets made, and how to know when the position you took has gone stale. That book is about the inside of an organization, its work, its people and its governance.

*Meet Them on the Water* takes the same method outward. It is about how organizations meet their markets when their customers, and increasingly their customers' agents, are doing the discovering, evaluating and buying. Neither book assumes the other.

[***The River Doesn't Wait.***](/book/) A Senior Executive Guide to Navigating the Surge of Agentic AI and Pulling Away From Your Competitors. [**Read more →**](/book/)

[***Meet Them on the Water.***](/books/meet-them-on-the-water/) How organizations meet their markets when the buying is done by agents. Fall 2026. [**Read more →**](/books/meet-them-on-the-water/)