As the owner of a small business, you may be considering expanding through the acquisition of a competing or complementary business. Or, you may be considering the idea of merging your business with another. Either way, as businessman and entrepreneur Hans Eckhardt Tucson can tell you, one of the main factors to assure a successful acquisition or merger is your ability to retain the employees of both companies. These are the people who know how the business is run on a day to day level, and who may have strategic skills or institutional knowledge. Making sure that they feel invested…