The Brain & Insight
Friday, January 16, 2009 by Dave Blum One of the most interesting articles I’ve read in a while is “The Eureka Hunt”, by Jonah Lehrer; it was published in The New Yorker on July 28, 2008 and you can read the whole article in the magazine’s archive by clicking here. The article begins with the […]
Birth of a Clue — Part Two
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by Dave Blum When I showed my list of touchstones to Scott later that week, he said, “Say, didn’t you once attend a treasure hunt in San Francisco? Why don’t you do that? It seems to fit the bill.” “Hmm,” I mulled. “Running treasure hunts and scavenger hunts would certainly allow me […]
Birth of a Clue — Part One
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by Dave Blum At the end of last Thursday’s treasure hunt in New Orleans, the team leader, Dean, came up to me and asked “So, what we’re all wondering is, how did you ever get into this line of work?”, to which I replied, (with a straight face), “What, leading scavenger […]
Student Journalists write up Dr. Clue
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 by Dave Blum One of the things I love about my business is that our scavenger hunts and team building exercises provide as much benefit to kids as to adults. It was my delight, then, to be approached recently by Winifred MacLeod, Publisher of Fast Forward magazine, to see if I’d do a hunt for her […]
On the hunt — in New Orleans
Monday, January 12, 2009 by Dave Blum So the good news is, New Orleans seems to be alive and well … at least in the French Quarter. Last Thursday’s treasure hunt program in “Nawlins” went pretty much the way I remember hunts used to go out there, pre-Katrina. Greeting my group of 25 salesmen from […]
Advanced Clue Creation
Thursday, January 8, 2009 by Dave Blum About once a week, I get a call from someone saying, “My son/wife/husband [fill in the blank] is having a birthday and I need some advice on how to create a scavenger hunt.” In general, I’m happy to offer free tips for creating social hunts. After all, there […]
Off to Nawlins
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 by Dave Blum Well, I’m off to New Orleans this morning for a treasure hunt gig tomorrow afternoon with Wells Real Estate Funds. I’m quite looking forward to going out there; I haven’t been to New Orleans since Katrina. Dr. Clue used to do a lot of programs in “The Big […]
Common Team building Questions
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by Dave Blum It’s funny how the most salient scavenger hunt ideas tend to come from conversations with clients. I was on the phone yesterday with Dean Borgh of Wells Real Estate Funds. Dean is the leader of a sales group scheduled to do a treasure hunt in the New Orleans […]
The Costa Rica story continues
Friday, January 2, 2009 by Dave Blum Continued from last entry… Sorting ourselves out from the accident and assessing the damage — both to the boat and to ourselves — took a few, painful minutes. Donna had a small cut to the top of her head and two black eyes; Marco was completely unscathed; and Andrea had a […]
The ability to trust
Friday, January 2, 2009 by Dave Blum It was sometime around 2000, while on vacation to Costa Rica, that the accident happened. I was on a small, four-person boat with my friend Donna, our guide, Andrea, and our ship pilot, Marco, returning from a pleasant daytrip to Corcovado National Park. Minutes away from the beach, Marco informed us that we needed to stop and […]