Ready to take charge of your finances? Beth Kobliner shares timeless tips to help you overcome your debt from her New York Times bestseller Get A Financial Life.

Capable people are credible. They inspire trust. It’s that simple. You can have integrity and good intent, but at the end of the day, if you don’t have current capabilities, if you are not relevant, you will not have credibility. From The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey

When you’ve got a job interview, here’s how to get to it without raising red flags at work, says Allison Hemming, author of Work It!: How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass, and Land a Job in Any Economy.

Handle the big job interview without breaking a sweat with these tips from Allison Hemming, author of Work It!: How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass, and Land a Job in Any Economy.

This eye-opening exercise from Stacy Johnson, author of Life or Debt 2010, is guaranteed to reduce excess spending as you discover your true income and how much the stuff you own really cost you.

The following “thought exercises” from Alvin Hall, financial educator and author of You and Your Money, can help you understand your internal money attitudes – and how you’ll deal with the ups and downs that life is apt to throw your way.

Just a 5 percent increase in employee loyalty can increase profits by as much as 50 percent. From The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton

Investing guru Jim Cramer, author of Jim Cramer’s Real Money, espouses the foolishness behind conventional wisdom to “buy and hold,” “own don’t trade,” and “never speculate.”

And how to work around it to find your next job, from Work It!: How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass, and Land a Job in Any Economy, by Allison Hemming