"deal making" is pretty damn important, I don't know why you think it's some intermediary step like making a phone call or sitting in a meeting.
"Scheduling meetings" is required, it just can't be used as a metric for progress. Don't get fooled into believing all these problems can be solved by sitting down and writing code for 10 hours.
He does in his book. But a blog post has to have a limited scope or it becomes a rambling mess.