"get the promotion"; "win"; "get the girl"; "get into Harvard";..... Wrong, wrong and more wrong. Hard work does not guarantee success. Never has. Never will. Hard work is no doubt a potentially key element for achieving success but is by no means the only and is some times a detractor. Talent, luck, connections, political savvy, bribes, coercion, compromising pictures, drugs, strategic thinking and many more elements play a role in attaining success and are many times more relevant than hard work.
Putting in a lot of extra time at the office helps but if the time is not creating positive results then the time is wasted except for the show factor. BTW, the show factor does work with some bosses that appear to value effort over results. But why not put the extra time in but work smart the same time. That's a winning combination.
If hard work assured success then dirt farmers would all be wealthy and most stock brokers would be impoverished. Does the hardest working athlete always win the race? Almost never. Talent and genetics will win virtually every time. Do the hardest working students get the top grades and get into the best schools. Not always. Brains and/or having parents as heavy endowment donors are likely to be more important factors. Are lottery winners hard workers? As a whole, doubt it. Lucky maybe.
Should hard work be rewarded? In most cases yes. But end results are the true measure of ones efforts and, therefore, results are what should be rewarded beyond all else. So work hard AND smart, produce outstanding results and be rewarded.
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