I'm from the UK, I know all about stiff-upper-lip but even to me this seems like unnecessary martyrdom. I would feel that I had failed my staff if any of them

I'm from the UK, I know all about stiff-upper-lip but even to me this seems like unnecessary martyrdom. I would feel that I had failed my staff if any of them thought that our product was so fragile that delaying launch by a week so they could mourn would cause irrevocable damage.