Why GE just can't catch a break

Its problems are so much bigger than John Flannery

Farewell John Flannery, we hardly knew ye.

Appointed just over a year ago as CEO of General Electric, Flannery was removed by the board on Monday — the shortest tenure for any CEO in GE's history. It was an ignominious end for an executive who was supposed to revive the fortunes of a once-mighty American company laid low by failures in everything from finance to health insurance to power turbines.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.