Anyone who tries to add this meeting phrase in his head: “… on the list”, “… in our project” and so on, is already subject to the great misunderstanding of expecting far too much concreteness. Because, of course, it is one of the many beautiful defensive formulas in working life that react to suggestions for improvements that are not to be expected immediately.
That ominous room into which the point is taken is hidden from the meeting participants, but must offer fantastic opportunities to take a closer look at something. That’s why politicians like to hear the formula when there are annoying special questions from the citizenry or party base, which apparently happens so often that the Schleswig-Holstein Greens parliamentarian Aminata Touré and Lasse Petersdotter self-deprecatingly on a 68-part joint podcast “I’ll take that once called with “.
Incidentally, a variation offers a phrase from the American consultant’s speech, which sounds a bit out of date in terms of computer technology, but which promises to be all the more resolute in a later deepening of a topic. It reads: “Let’s doubleclick on that.”