"[12] Linkner has published four books, the first Leaning Forward: Surviving/Winning in the Future of Interactive Marketing in 2007,[13] a New York Times best-seller Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity in 2011, in 2014 a New York Times best-seller The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation, and in 2017 Hacking Innovation: The New Growth Model from the Sinister World of Hackers.

[23] On August 18, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama gave Linkner a Champion of Change award in the youth entrepreneur category.

[24][25] He won an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Realizing Business Potential category for Central Great Lakes Region in 2004.

[31] In an interview with Vanna Le of Forbes magazine, he stated he was optimistic about growth in high technology and innovation in general, with the exception of social media.

Lepore postulates that Linkner advises the aspiring disruptive innovators (in which he invests) that "the world is a terrifying place, moving at a devastating pace".