The Best Business Books Of 1995

From global power to intrigue in the boardroom, from sharp ideas to prickly personalities, this year's top 10 business books cover an array of absorbing subjects.

In a competitive world, global economic might is fleeting. Is Japan beginning to fade, as some observers say? Far from it, says Eamonn Fingleton in Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000 (Houghton Mifflin). In what our reviewer, former Tokyo Bureau Chief Robert Neff, called a "prodigiously researched and engagingly argued" work, Fingleton asserts that, in spite of the obvious problems, Japan continues to show inordinate competitive muscle. And rather than putting a burden on exporters and consumers, the mighty yen, he says, is "one of the principal levers" of Japan's power.