Will the new CEO continue down this path, or chart a new course from scratch, rendering the last two years wasted time?

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They may well have wasted two years' hard negotiating and a fair amount of political capital.

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Obama had absolutely nothing to do with the causes of the financial meltdown, but he wasted two precious years being misled by Summers and Geithner as to how to respond to it.

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Obama wasted the first two years of his administration attempting to charm the Iranians out of their nuclear weapons program.

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About 60 percent of leaders agreed that owning IT infrastructure wasted resources, compared to just 38 percent two years earlier.

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