Whats the difference between a Functional Lead and a Core Team Lead?

First the basics:

Functional Lead is someone who is responsible for a particular function within the organization.

Core Team Lead is someone who takes the output from a Functional Team as the input and gives the organization a product that makes mooooney :)

The best analogy I can find that matches the role of a Functional Lead and a Core Team is that of a parent vs the married life. Let us see the main roles to be performed by:

Functional Lead:

He is like a parent figure to the Functional Team.

• Train the individuals to enable them to meet the demands of the world
• Spoon feed them when they are young
• Teach them how to walk
• Mature enough to deal with youngsters and mature people alike
• Reduce his intervention in the life of an individual to the bare minimum once the individual has grown up and learn to walk BUT
  
• Be there when the individual needs him
• Plan the future of the team
  

Core Team Lead:

• Get a trained individual who knows how to live life in this world
• Tell them what needs to be eaten, how they eat is none of his / her business
• Walk along with them and teach them how to run
  
• Mature enough to deal with other mature people
• What the individual does daily is a matter of great concern to him!
• Be there when the individual needs him (something common between a Functional Lead and a Core Team Lead)
• Use his current talents to the best possible extent

The only difference between Core Teams and marriages is that Core Teams can keep on changing for individuals but marriages can't :)

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