Linda Lacina

Entrepreneur Staff

Linda Lacina is the former managing editor at Entrepreneur.com. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Family Circle. Email her at llacina@entrepreneur.com. Follow her at @lindalacina on Twitter.

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More From Linda Lacina

Building a Business

To Move Quickly and Solve the Right Problems, Leaders Need to Ask Better Questions

Asking better questions doesn't just drive innovations, it can also build expertise in your team by setting an important expectation.

Thought Leaders

Leaders: Work on Knowing Yourself. This Founder Did and It’s Made All the Difference.

Be deliberate and intentional.

Business Branding

If You’re Not Asking Yourself This Simple Question, This Longtime Founder Says You’re Toast

Know who you are and what you stand for.

Thought Leaders

This Leader Is Making It Easier for Members of the Deaf Community to Start Their Own Businesses

The deaf community is often left out of conversations on diversity. Learn how one group is looking to change that.

Business Ideas

This Man Spent 4 Years With the World’s Most Innovative People. Here’s What They Taught Him.

We can learn a lot about what creativity takes from the people solving the world's most difficult problems.

Thought Leaders

11 Women Leaders on How to Make Your Voice Heard

Here is some great advice from female leaders who are breaking barriers in the tech industry.

Thought Leaders

Thinx Co-Founder Taps a Life of Design Influences for New Shoe Company

Antonia Saint Dunbar has built a career developing new products to make women's lives better.

Thought Leaders

Frank Oz Reveals Jim Henson’s Creative and Inspiring Leadership Secrets

A new film shares how Henson motivated the team behind the world-famous Muppets.

Building a Business

Simple Routines Help Hugh Forrest and His Team Plan SXSW’s Thousands of Panels in Music, Tech and Film

Never underestimate the power of a quick email reply or a face-to-face meeting.

Entrepreneurs

How a 2nd Grade Reading Chart Helped This Food Entrepreneur Launch a Meal-Kit Company

To keep her business goals on track, Elana Karp relied on a tactic she used in her previous life as a grade-school teacher.

Building a Business

A Hurricane Took Her Home and Uprooted Her Staff: Hear How This Entrepreneur Pushed Forward and Recommitted to Her Company

Recommit to your responsibilities.

Building a Business

Martha Stewart’s Empire Was Actually Her Third Career: How Curiosity and Optimism Have Helped Her Evolve

She didn't write her first book until her 40s.

Building a Business

This Entrepreneur Who Started Her Kombucha Business in an Apartment With $600 Has a Message for Struggling Entrepreneurs

You're not failing, you're changing.

Building a Business

How This Woman’s Remarkable Life Helped Her Demystify Business for Underserved Entrepreneurs

Alfa Demmellash survived a brutal dictatorship in Ethiopia, was abducted by her father, came to the U.S. without knowing a lick of English and attended Harvard. Now, she wants to help others.

Building a Business

This Bestselling Author Says These 4 Simple Mistakes Are Holding You Back From Planning Your Future

Are you telling yourself the wrong story?

Online Presence

‘Lady Doritos’ Don’t Actually Exist, But the Outrage Against It Teaches Us an Important Lesson About Making Up Our Own Minds

Read more, react less.

Building a Business

Here’s How Celebrity Chef Sunny Anderson Brought Her Super Bowl-Ready Snack Stadium to Market

It's all in the research.

Thought Leaders

Cards Against Humanity’s Founders Are Less Concerned With Balance Sheets Than Making Each Other Laugh

The founders definitely have a different way of thinking, and they don't understand why that is weird.

Human Resources

This Tech Leader Does Job Interviews Over Email and Chat — and Maybe You Should, Too

Nathan Kontny believes that if you're a stronger writer, you'll be a more efficient leader.

Business Ideas

Billion-Dollar Inventor Joy Mangano Rebuilt Her Life Thanks to This Simple Idea — And You Can, Too

After selling more than $3 billion in goods, Joy Mangano says people need to realize everything is a product.

Thought Leaders

This Entrepreneur’s Failed Mount Everest Summit Changed How He Manages His Team

You can push past your limits -- if you ask for help.

Thought Leaders

This Author Shares the Simple Changes You Can Make to Work Better With Others

Author Daniel Coyle shares his research on group collaboration from his latest book, 'The Culture Code.'

Thought Leaders

How a Near-Death Experience Inspired This Entrepreneur to Change Her Career and Plug Into Her Purpose

Melinda Richter of JLABs never imagined she'd run a health sciences incubator. But a near-death experience inspired her to tap into a new purpose -- helping entrepreneurs in the health sciences.

Human Resources

This Entrepreneur’s Simple Brain Hacks Will Make You More Effective in Dealing With Awful People and Situations

Control your reactions to control your future.

Thought Leaders

Planning for a Library 100 Years in the Future: The Woman Behind This Massive Undertaking Explains How She Gets Things Done

Anne Beate Hovind, the engine behind a unique public art project in Norway called Future Library, shares how she makes the impossible possible.

Building a Business

To Harness Creativity, You Need to First Understand Its Neural Magic.

This expert explains the brain's role in how ideas survive and thrive.

Building a Business

Podcast: Want to Keep Moving? This Cybersecurity Expert Says You’ll Need to Start By Asking the Right Questions.

This cybersecurity founder explains how she manages risk -- and the unexpected freedom it brings.

Building a Business

Podcast: This Trait Is Helping One Beauty Entrepreneur Build Something Rare

Thanks to this founder, beauty is becoming more useful.

Building a Business

This Imagination Expert Can Help You Get Your Best Creative Work Done

The author and scientist shares how to make something compelling -- and get more work done.

Business Ideas

This Architect Shares What You Gain When You Think Like an Outsider

On our latest podcast 'How Success Happens' Witold Rybczynski shares how studying everyday things can reveal some surprising insights on the nature of invention.

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