"Let them know that you are working long and hard. Even accomplished, self-motivated senior colleagues won't work harder than you will for very long. Send emails early and late. Invite meetings on weekends and at odd hours. Be in the office or online all the time. Dial into meetings at insane hours during overseas travel. Understand that managers older than yourself may have families that require them to live by different rhythms from yours — they may need to be offline from 6 to 8, for example. But expect them to be working long and hard, whenever it is, and make sure you are always doing more than they are. Because you have less natural authority when working with older people, reinforce your "moral right" to demand hard work by showing that you demand even more of yourself."

This seems dishonest and distracting, maybe even slimey. I'm mentally more tired just by imagining taking a course of action for show IN ADDITION to doing real work. I wouldn't want to live or think this way. We've all had these thoughts as kids, but when we grow up and become wiser we see how all of that is a distraction. Maybe I"m overreacting, but in the context of an otherwise sane piece, that paragraph surprised me.