The article titled , "Moral leaders perform better—but what’s ‘moral’ is up for debate" by Matthew Biddle explores and properly explains different leadership styles and the benefits along with consequences of each style. This article was found on the University of Buffalo news center, a website created by the University to discuss important topics and do so in a educated and informative manner. In this article, Biddle explains why good leaders are servant-like and what great benefits they bring into a environment. The discussion over moral leadership and making a change is important today since many leaders do not inspire any form of change, nor make a effort to.

According to the article, some of the most important affects of leaders inspiring change is that "performance, engagement, motivation and other factors" dramatically increase according to "researchers [that] found a strong sense of morality is positive for leaders" (Biddle 9). Biddle also states that further research done proved that "servant leaders had the strongest results for customer service, community impact and employees’ work-life balance" (Biddle 10).

Biddle's main ideas can easily be applied to "A Bell for Adano" because of Major Joppolo's excellent servant-like leadership. Throughout his stay in the small Italian town, he inspires others and dramatically enhances living conditions from what they previously were. As Biddle accurately predicted, the Major's leadership in the town yielded stunning and impressive results which coincides with the data stating that moral leaders are excellent leaders at bringing about positive change for the general population.

Unfortunately, there are many current leaders that, unlike the Major, bring about little to no change for anyone at all. Like Biddle emphasized "leaders who value morality outperform their unethical peers" and that "[moral] leaders enjoy greater personal well-being" compared to a leader who disregarded morals and paid little to no mind (Biddle 1, 4). Therefore, it only seems logical to conclude that our leaders should be required to be moral since it brings changes that not only benefit them, but everyone as well.