Sometimes you just need some general advice on how to research your small business start up or to run your business better. Learning how others have been successful in business is the best way.

Take a look at these books to see how your small business can benefit from other's experience.

ISO 9001: 2000 for Small Businesses

A guide to the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 for small businesses. It seeks to help the small business draw up a quality plan that will allow them to meet the challenges of the market place. This edition is revised and updated, and features more information on quality control.

Losing My Virginity

 Whatever you think of Britain's most famous entrepreneur the odds are that you will enjoy reading his autobiography. You may snort at descriptions of his "poor" childhood--spent eating bread and dripping while living in the kind of house house the majority of us visit on Bank Holidays and attending a "minor" public school. You may groan at memories of early initiative tests: how about being thrown out of the family car and told by his mother to find his way home--at the age of four?  But all in all you'll get to understand where the guy's coming from--man.

Funky Business

This cult best-seller is the book that is putting the life back into business. Funky Business tells us that difference rules, and difference comes from the way people think not what companies make. It's talent that makes capital dance. In this world, we can no longer do 'business as usual' - we need funky business.

Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story

Gripping story of the rise and fall of one of the stars of the Internet era!

Bill Gates Speaks

Created through the independent research of bestselling author Janet Lowe, Bill Gates Speaks documents the life and ambitions of one of the world's most unique business and cultural leaders. The only book to compile Gates' actual words-culled from articles, newscasts, and interviews-this profile reveals what Gates has to say on everything from financing a start-up to running a conglomerate, developing technology, to raising a family.

Jack: Straight from the Gut

It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. In Jack: What I've Learned Leading a Great Company and Great People, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century.

Kick-start Your Business

Too much to do, too little time? Feel your business could do with a tune-up, but are too busy running it to sort out the problems? With the fast, proven techniques in this book, you can transform your workplace into a powerhouse. You won't find textbook abstractions or irrelevant management school theories here - just dozens of practical ways to turbo charge any business.

Do Something Different

This volume, built around 100 case studies, contains advice on how to take charge of your situation and create your own alternatives. It offers examples of entrepreneurs who took a sideways look at the market and their competitors, and decided to branch out and do something a little bit surprising. As a result they made their products and their companies stand out among the competition.

Pour Your Heart into It

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a manager, a marketer, or a curious Starbucks loyalist, Pour Your Heart into It will let you in on the revolutionary Starbucks venture. CEO Howard Schultz recounts the company's rise and explains the company's core values, such as "Winning at the expense of employees is not victory at all."

Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic

The story of how Coffee Republic was born off the kitchen table and the lessons you can learn.

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