281- A Conversation with Larry Sage: Leading with Confidence and Self-Reflection

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Larry Sage Larry Sage is the Director of Information Technology at Cleveland Steel Container, bringing over 28 years of diverse IT experience to his role. During this time, he held various positions, starting as a systems analyst and climbing the ranks to ultimately become the vice president of IT at his previous organization. Larry, a father of five, enhanced his leadership perspective through a transformative two-year expat experience in Belgium. He is passionate about technology and cherishes time spent with his family. A Conversation with Larry Sage: Leading with Confidence and Self-Reflection In this insightful episode of “Dissecting Popular IT Nerds,” Doug Camin engages in a captivating conversation with Larry Sage, Director of Information Technology at Cleveland Steel Container. Larry shares his leadership journey, emphasizing the evolution of his leadership style and the importance of self-reflection. He offers valuable insights on mentoring, taking risks, and the impact of living abroad on his perspective. This episode is a must-listen for IT executives seeking to develop their leadership skills and effectively mentor their teams.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:10.1	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Larry Sage, Director of Information
0:14.8	Technology at Cleveland Steel Container.
0:17.2	Welcome to the show, Larry.
0:18.8	Hey, good to be here.
0:20.2	So, Larry, steel container, Cleveland Steel Container, what? I just, this feels like a very specific business. It is. It is. It's interesting. So I, I actually just transitioned to Cleveland Steel about seven weeks ago. So I'm still learning the business as well. But basically,
0:40.2	Cleveland Steel Container is a, basically they make steel containers. You see them a lot in
0:46.5	in paint operations, basically five gallon buckets. I actually have a picture of one, but you can't
0:51.9	see it. It's, yes, it is a very specific operation.
0:56.0	Cleveland Steel, though, does have three other companies, pipeline packaging,
1:01.0	hazmat pack, and then co-excell, which are basically subsidiary companies.
1:06.0	But, you know, all in all, it's a unique operation.
1:09.0	It's definitely something, it's an old
1:11.2	company that was started here in Cleveland, and they've done pretty well for themselves.
1:16.7	Yeah, that's awesome. So like, all across the country, I'd be probably across the world, too,
1:22.5	but I'll just limit myself to the United States when I generalize, I guess. Right.
1:26.6	There's businesses like this all over where they get into this niche of something that
1:32.9	they could do really, really well.
1:34.7	And then it turns into, you know, a reasonable business that sustains people and
1:39.0	sustains a company, you know, but in our, I think in our minds, like so much of what
1:43.1	we think about in, you know, business is like a large corporate America, you know, hey, you know, but I think in our minds, like so much of what we think about in, you know, businesses,
1:45.5	like a large corporate America, you know, hey, you know, if your business is just building steel
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