Steve Jagler, for BizTimes Media

When newly named Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan attempted to make his first stump speech on the “soapbox” at the Iowa State Fair Monday, he was greeted by a small chorus of hooligans who shouted at him the entire speech.

Can’t be done, you say? Then explain to me how the Quad-Cities, a metro market less than a quarter the size of Milwaukee, can sustain a PGA tournament.

On a normal Monday morning commute, I drive by the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek along Howell Avenue on my way to work in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.

The Internet as we know it today could not have been built without the vision of Bill Gates, the culture of innovation he nurtured at Microsoft Corp. and his personal rivalry with the late Steve Jobs at Apple.

Southeastern Wisconsin business executives are more optimistic about the direction of their companies in the second half of the year than they were when the year began, according to the latest BizTimes Business Dashboard Survey.

The standard advertising proposition works something like this:

Many businesses would love to get involved and raise money for a favorite charity. They just don’t have a clue about how to go about it.

Wall Street chatter about the outlook for Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Inc. is heating up, sparked by the recent sale of millions of dollars of HOG stock by company insiders.

The precarious futures of the Bradley Center and the Milwaukee Bucks have been the focus of many public conversations in recent weeks, and deservedly so.

As the leader of a company or nonprofit organization, it is all too easy to get so caught up in the day-to-day grind of running a business. So much so, in fact, that we don't often take time to work ON our business because we are so busy working IN our business.