Applied Ontology Methods · The Body of Work
Six Methods.
One Operating System
for Maximizing Performance.
Applied Ontology Methods created by Paul Roth to transform the way leaders operate across the domains that determine authority, trust, growth, time, selling, accountability, and results. Not disconnected programs, but six Methods within one operating system.
The Distinction
Most methods tell you what to do.
RothMethods upgrades how you operate so you can tell yourself what to do.
Most performance work gives you another tactic or set of tricks. A better script. A better calendar. A better sales process. Those help - but if the same underlying operating patterns stay in place, the same problems quickly return.
You still avoid conversations.
You still dilute the messages.
You still renegotiate the promises.
You still sell from agenda instead of trust.
RothMethods helps you get underneath the tactics, techniques, triggers, tricks, and traps of normal conversations, and get to the level Paul Roth calls Being. Not as a philosophy, but as the source code shaping your performance.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
The Architecture
Ontology is a Conversation About Who You Are Being!
Every Method works through the same practical architecture. Upgrade the way you operate, and performance reorganizes. This is not a new idea, but it is a true idea.
Being
The way you are being shapes your actions even before action begins. Who you have been being is likely not who you are. Who you are is the full expression of the core values you were given to fulfill. They are who you were always meant to be and who you will always be. It all just got buried by survival-driven machinery designed to protect you by keeping you smaller than you were always meant to be.
Doing
The conversations, commitments, and actions that follow from being. Your actions are shaped by who you are being. If who you are being is less than who you were meant to be, your actions will be undermined, your aspirations will be compromised, and your performance will never achieve the level of results and fulfillment you want and deserve. Not until you come to grips with why you are being who you are being.
Having
The results, recognition, and reward for actions that generate the future you want can never be achieved as long as who you are being is defined by your inner survival-driven machinery, which you cannot yet see. Seeing your machinery is the only way to separate from it, and in so doing, allow your innate core values to blossom and take command.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
THE SIX METHODS
Separate entryways that lead you into yourself.
The six Methods are strongest when they come together as one body of work.
01
Blindspot Discovery Method
Uncover the hidden machinery driving your patterns of ineffectiveness and self-defeat.
The entry point into RothMethods. It makes visible the hidden operating patterns shaping how you react, avoid, commit, sell, lead, use time, and become known, even after years of insight, effort, and success. Because what remains unseen keeps running your show.
Best for top performers and leaders who
are willing to confront the patterns of self-defeat that keep repeating, and are willing to do the work of transformation, even though they still feel constrained by something underneath. They need full clarity on this if they are to fulfill their true aspirations.
02
Advisory Conversations Method
Transform adversarial agenda-based conversations into commitment-based conversations that build trust.
At its highest level, selling is the ability to create a conversation where truth, trust, commitment, and movement become possible. This Method transforms counterproductive conversations from a posturing, pretending, and proving agenda into empowering structured advisory conversations that yield productive and enduring partnerships.
Best for top performers & leaders who
Need to sell a vision, offer, service, or transformation process. Resist selling because it feels like pressure or self-promotion, when all they want is to make a contribution, and who want conversations that create commitment instead of compromise.
03
Collaborative Leadership Method
Lead from shared commitment to mutual success, not from agenda-based positional authority.
Collaborative Leadership is about rallying teams of people to work together around a common cause - one of great consequence. It is about calling upon people to see what has not yet been seen and challenging them to reach beyond the limits of anything they have previously achieved.
BEST FOR TOP PERFORMERS & LEADERS WHO
Lead teams that compete instead of collaborate. Hold authority but not commitment. Know their people could produce far more together than they are producing now.
04
Game Generation Method
Define a game worth playing and worth winning.
Most people work hard living inside of a game they did not consciously choose. The Game Generation Method helps top performers and team leaders define a game worth playing and worth winning for themselves and others.
Best for top performers & leaders who
Can feel the next level but have not clearly generated it. Are outgrowing an old business, role, or identity. Want their work to become more consequential, not just more successful. Want a game rooted in aspiration, contribution, commitment, and consequence for all involved.
05
Time Navigation Method
Stop managing time. Start navigating commitment.
Time management assumes the problem is your calendar and that time can be managed, when in fact, it cannot. Time is set - no more and no less. What we get is chaos - obstacles and opportunities shot at us point blank all day every day.
Best for top performers & leaders who
Have full calendars and unkept commitments. Confuse being busy with being productive. Let urgency run the week instead of the future they are committed to.
06
Accountability Management Method
Turn promises into power.
Accountability is the managed expression of commitment. It is what makes the difference between human beings and dogs. Human beings can make promises and keep them, but dogs can't. But that requires that we give up whining, barking, and moaning to get what we want.
Best for top performers & leaders who
Make promises that get renegotiated, delayed, or forgotten – by themselves or their team. Are tired of managing around broken commitments. Want their word to become their power.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Methods vs. Programs
The Methods are the architecture, and the Programs are the pathway to transformation.
The Methods define the RothMethods body of work. They are called the Applied Ontology Methods because each one focuses on the challenges of being in leadership, in conversations with our team, in our relationship with time, in mastering accountability, and in maximizing performance. Come here to understand the architecture.
Go to Programs to find the right path into the work.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Begin the Work
Do you feel like you don't have the strength to take command of the events in your life, or like a passenger on a plane with no pilot?
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Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
Conversations
Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.
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