Several factors -- the ongoing effects of the financial crisis and global recession, skyrocketing employee stress and several high-profile cases of executive burnout -- have led some corporate leaders to rethink the approach to business that exclusively prizes working faster, harder and longer in order to achieve short-term gains.
The species are prized in Southern California sushi restaurants, which now serve their customers imported fish almost exclusively, most of it from China, Japan, Greece or Chile.
Visual display was prized.
A debut novel about inherited identity, a dystopian fantasy from a former children's laureate, a study of Indian healthcare and radical history of black Britain have all been lined up to contend for a new British book prize exclusively for writers of colour.
The importance gets undermined, in my opinion, when clients & agencies team up to produce work exclusively for the prizes, making it an aspiration to 15 minutes of fame rather than a real desire to push a brand forward.
The all-women shortlist for the novel category in this year's Costa Book Awards has rekindled the debate on whether the UK ought to continue with a prize dedicated exclusively to women's fiction, 17 years after the Orange prize for fiction was established to bring outstanding women writers to the attention of readers.
The new Ives Living is the largest prize available exclusively to composers; in fact, only the Grawermeyer Award, an annual prize of $150,000 administered by the University of Louisville, approaches its total cash value.
Previously the Booker Prize was exclusively for authors from the UK, Ireland, the Commonwealth and Zimbabwe.
The Ives Living, which is the largest prize available exclusively to composers, was established in 1998, and is paid in three annual installments of $75,000.
All of which explains why the Observer needed no persuading to co-sponsor what is, I believe, the world's first graphic short story prize, published exclusively in the Observer review today.
